A Henan Airlines passenger plane hit the runway when it was trying to landing at the Lindu Airport in the Yichun city of China.
The Henan Airlines flight had taken off from Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, on the 360-kilometer (225-mile) flight to Lindu Airport, about 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) from downtown Yichun, a city of about 1 million residents near the Russian border. A Yichun vice-mayor said that most of those taken to hospitals did not have life-threatening injuries.
China’s last fatal passenger airline accident occurred in November 2004.