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Plane mishap seems becoming common these days as a passenger aircraft carrying 91 boarders crashed while landing at an airport in the northwest Heilongjiang Province in China yesterday in which nearly 42 people have been recovered death and 49 survivors have been found in badly injured condition.

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It was the Brazilian manufactured E-190 jet which overshot the runway and reported to jerk heavily and exploded during landing in the thick foggy condition of the airport as reported by the survivors.

The search and rescue operation by clearing the wreckage of the plane is continuing till now and 49 people who luckily escaped the major accident have been admitted to the state run Xinhua hospital.

Among the boarders were five children and five crew members, who boarded in the plane of state run Henan Airlines which left provincial capital Harbin at about 8:51 pm and it exploded at around 9:36 pm on Tuesday when it landed near the runway of the Yichun airport.

Many among the injured are in serious condition and as a result more deaths are feared. The captain of the jet is alive and recuperated in the local hospital but out of his traumatization he is unable to speak anything. Survivors have reported that the plane experienced violent jerks while landing. They said that they managed to escape through the front exit which was opened before it caught fire and exploded.

With the explosion of the aircraft, the entire airport was covered with fog and the visitors waiting for the aircraft started panicking leading to the commotion on Airport.

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