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Survivors Describe Escape from Chinese Airliner

   VOA News 25 August 2010
   A  child injured in Tuesday's plane crash is carried from an intensive
   care  unit  to a waiting ambulance for transfer to a regional hospital
   from  a  hospital  in  Yichun  City,  northeast  China's  Heilongjiang
   Province, 25 Aug 2010

Photo: AP

   A  child injured in Tuesday's plane crash is carried from an intensive
   care  unit  to a waiting ambulance for transfer to a regional hospital
   from  a  hospital  in  Yichun  City,  northeast  China's  Heilongjiang
   Province, 25 Aug 2010

   Survivors  of  a  plane  crash in northeast China are giving harrowing
   accounts of their escape from the burning wreckage.
   The  survivors,  interviewed from hospital beds Wednesday, described a
   series  of  powerful  jolts  as  their  airliner  overshot a runway on
   landing and broke apart.
   Two   survivors   told  state  media  how  they  crawled  through  the
   smoke-filled  fuselage until they found holes where they could jump to
   safety.
   A  total  of  42  people  died and 54 survived when the Henan Airlines
   plane  crashed  in  a  fog  on  Tuesday  evening  at  Yichun  City  in
   Heilongjiang  province,  about  an  hour  after taking off from Harbin
   city.
   The  pilot is alive, but too seriously injured to talk to authorities,
   and the cause of the crash remains unknown.
   However  Chinese media say that another airline canceled night flights
   at  the airport after determining they were too dangerous. The lightly
   used facility was completed last year.
   Xinhua  news  reported  that  investigators have recovered the plane's
   "black box" flight data recorders.
   Chinese  Vice  Premier  Zhang  Dejiang  visited some of the injured in
   hospitals on Wednesday.

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

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