43 killed in China plane crash

[Taishi Ci]

43 killed in China plane crash

More than 40 people were feared dead after a Chinese passenger jet overshot a runway in the country’s northeast and burst into flames.

Published: 7:21PM BST 24 Aug 2010
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The Henan Airlines plane crashed in Heilongjiang province’s Yichun City, according to state media, who said 49 of the 91 passengers had been rescued. State media last night confirmed 43 passengers had been killed.

Wang Xuemei, vice mayor of Yichun, told Chinese television that three of the 48 hospitalized were in critical condition but gave no specifics. The plane had taken off from Heilongjiang’s capital of Harbin shortly before 9pm and crashed during landing at the Lindu airport a little more than an hour later.

China’s last major civilian aircraft crash was in 2004, when a CRJ200 operated by China Eastern Airlines came down in a frozen lake in northern Inner Mongolia shortly after take-off, killing more than 50 people. Yichun airport is a small domestic facility which opened only last year, and is one of an increasing number of airports built in remote parts of China to help boost economic development.

Henan Airlines is a small regional carrier controlled by Shenzhen Airlines, which is itself part-owned by Air China. The airline is based in Henan, a province in central China. It changed its name from Kunpeng Airlines earlier this year and flies only domestic routes using the Brazilian-made Embraer.

 

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<figure></figure>Bodies of the victims recovered from the crash of a Henan Airlines ERJ-190 jet lie beside
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, rescuers work at the site of a reported plane crash at an airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. According to Xinhua, the plane overshot the runway in Yichun city and burst into flames.
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The wreckage of a crashed passenger plane is seen in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province early August 25, 2010, in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Forty-nine passengers have been rescued after the plane, carrying more than 90 passengers, overshot the runway and crashed in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun on Tuesday, state television said.


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Rescuers search for bodies of victims beside the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province early August 25, 2010 in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Forty-nine passengers have been rescued after the plane, carrying more than 90 passengers, overshot the runway and crashed in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun on Tuesday, state television said.

A video grab shows a fire truck at the scene of a passenger plane crash in Yichun, northeast China August 24, 2010. A passenger plane crashed in northeast China late on Tuesday, overshooting the runway and bursting into flames, killing at least 42 of 96 people onboard in what was the nation's worst air disaster for years.


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Rescuers work at the site of a plane crash in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province August 24, 2010 in this photo taken by mobile phone and distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Forty-nine passengers have been rescued after a plane carrying more than 90 passengers overshot the runway and crashed in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun on Tuesday, state television said.



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