Report: Passenger plane carrying 91 people crashes in northeast China

Passenger plane with 91 on board crashes in China

BEIJING — A Henan Airlines plane with 91 people on board crashed Tuesday close to an airport in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province and rescuers were rushing to the scene, state media reported.

The plane crashed near the Lindu airport in Yichun city at 10:10 p.m. local time (1410 GMT), the official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief report citing local government and airline officials. It did not say if there were any fatalities.

The plane had taken off from Heilongjiang’s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. (1300 GMT). An earlier Xinhua report citing airline officials erroneously reported 96 people were on board.