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Chinese Airliner Crashes With More Than 90 on Board

   VOA News 24 August 2010

   Chinese  state  media  say  more than 20 people have been hospitalized
   after  a  passenger  plane  overshot  a runway in the northeast of the
   country and burst into flames.
   Reports  say  at  least 47 people were rescued from the Henan Airlines
   plane,  which  crashed  on  landing  at  an  airport at Yichun City in
   Heilongjiang province.
   The  official Xinhua news agency says at least 91 people were on board
   the plane, which took off before 9 p.m. Tuesday local time from Harbin
   city and crashed a little more than an hour later. Â
   Initial  reports  provided  conflicting  information about the type of
   aircraft involved and the number of people on board.
   Henan Airlines is a regional carrier based in northern China.  It was
   launched  in  2007  as a joint enterprise between Shenzhen Airlines of
   China and U.S.-based Mesa Air Group.
   Mesa later sold its stake in the airline.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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