黑龙江伊春客机失事43人遇难

爱思英语编者按：据新华社北京8月25日凌晨2时电，8月24日晚，河南航空有限公司(原鲲鹏航空公司)一架客机在黑龙江省伊春市降落时发生事故。飞机在降落时断成两截后坠毁机上有96人 已确认43人遇难。截至发稿时，飞机上96人(其中91名乘客)，已安全抢救51人。

A Chinese passenger jet overshot a fog-shrouded runway in the country"s northeast and burst into flames Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 49 others, state media said.

The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and crew crashed in Heilongjiang province"s Yichun city, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

China Central Television quoted Sun Bangnan, deputy director of the Heilonjiang Public Security Department, as saying that 43 bodies had been recovered and that 49 people were rescued and taken to local hosptials.

Wang Xuemei, vice mayor of Yichun, told CCTV that three of them were in critical condition but gave no details.

The plane, which Xinhua said was Brazilian-made Embraer E-190 jet, had taken off from Heilongjiang"s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. and crashed in heavy fog during landing at the Lindu airport a little more than an hour later.

An official surnamed Qi at the Yichun No. 1 People"s Hospital said 30 people had been brought there for treatment, with most suffering broken bones.

A man who would only give his surname, Wang, at the Yichun Rehabilitation Hospital, which has burn specialists on site, said 10 survivors were transferred there with burn injuries.

Another eight survivors were at the Yichun Forestry Hospital, said a duty officer surnamed Zhou. He said he did not know the nature of their injuries.

There were five children and five crew members on board, Xinhua cited an unnamed official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China as saying. It was not known how many of them survived.

Henan Airlines is based in the central Chinese province of the same name and flies smaller regional jets, mainly on routes in north and northeast China. Previously known as Kunpeng Airlines, the carrier was relaunched as Henan Airlines earlier this year.

The last major passenger jet crash in China was in November 2004, when an China Eastern airplane plunged into a lake in northern China shortly, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground.