A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed in Yichun City in north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday night, Xinhua news agency quoted government and airline company sources as saying.
Xinhua said the plane, which had taken off about an hour earlier from the provincial capital, Harbin, belonged to Henan Airlines. It gave no further details.
Officials in Yichun said the plane crashed at about 10pm local time. Emergency services were rushing to the scene. — Reuters