At least 42 people were dead after a Henan Airlines plane with 91 people on board overshot a runway and burst into flames in northeast China, state media reported. The crash happened at the Lindu airport in Yichun city in Heilongjiang province at 10:10 pm local time, the official Xinhua news agency said. The plane left Heilongjiang's capital of Harbin just before 9pm local time. Wang Xuemei, the vice-mayor of Yichun, told state television broadcaster CCTV that 49 people, including three who were seriously injured, had been taken to hospital. Henan Airlines flies smaller regional aircraft mainly in the north and northeast of China.
