A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed late Tuesday night (Aug 24)near the Yichun airport in Heilongjiang Province. At least 42 people were confirmed dead while the remaining 54 have been rescued and sent to hospitals. Among them, Two Cantonese were dead and two were injured and treated in the hospital.
Rescuers search for survivors at the site where a passenger plane crashed in Yichun City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, early on Aug. 25, 2010. A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed late Tuesday night the Yichun airport. At least 42 people were confirmed dead while the remaining 54 have been rescued and sent to hospitals. (Xinhua Photo)Guangdong officials ordered government to trace the latest situation and make relief work as a priority. Some officials already headed to Yichun to deal with the aftermath of the related families in the plane crash.
The ERJ-190 jet, manufactured by the Brazilian aerospace conglomerate Embraer with maximum passenger capacity of 108, crashed near the runaway of Lindu airport of Yichun at 9:36 p.m. Tuesday, some 40 minutes after it took off from the provincial capital Harbin.
(By Miranda)
