Yichun

YICHUN, China - A top aviation official defended the safety of an airport in remote northeast China where a plane crashed while coming in for a night landing - the country's worst commercial air disaster in nearly six years, a state news agency reported Thursday.

YICHUN, China - A nighttime flight into a remote Chinese city ended with a violent, shaking descent and then a crash near an airport that one major Chinese airline had previously judged unsafe for night landings.