Wednesday, August 25, 2010

China Plane Crash Probed

Aviation Officials at a Relatively new airport in northeast China on Wednesday searched through debris for Clues Thurs why a Passenger jet crashed while Trying to Land on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54 others. 

The Henan Airlines plane crashed late on Tuesday in a Grassy area near the airport Lindu in the Heilongjiang province city of Yichun. The newly built airport in Yichun sits in a forested valley and has operated for a year. 

There were 96 people on board Including 91 Passengers and five crew members. Survivors recounted scenes of horror, with luggage Falling Down and escapes through flames and broken holes in the fuselage. 

The plane's two black boxes were Recovered on Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency Reported, it is vain Still Not known what caused the accident. 

Vice Prime Minister Zhang Dejiang arrived on Wednesday at the crash site Thurs help set up an investigation "team. 

Most of the injured were brought on Thurs Yichun City Hospital Number 1, WCG was under heavy security. Seven of the 54 survivors were severely injured, Said Yichun Wang Aiwen mayor. 

In the hospital intensive care unit, a mother and her two daughters - all badly injured - waited to Be Transferred to a better facility in a bigger city. All-three not have burns over large parts of Their body of the mothers and the windpipe has Been crushed on the basis of the incident. 

Outside the children's aunt, Qu Guihong, spoke of her younger sister and the girls: "they'll never fly in a plane again. That is the first thing They think" when me saw Them: "We'll never take a plane again. " And for the children that was Their first time ever on a plane. " 

Other anxious relatives waited for Their reports are injured loved ones as doctors assessed the injuries. 

Most of the 54 survivors are Expected to live. 

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