{"id":44236,"date":"2010-08-25T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/25\/42-dead-54-survivors-in-china-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:13:00","slug":"42-dead-54-survivors-in-china-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/25\/42-dead-54-survivors-in-china-plane-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"42 Dead, 54 Survivors in China Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday what caused China’s first fatal passenger plane crash in almost six years, reports CNN.com.<\/p>\n

A Henan Airlines flight with 96 people on board overshot a runway and crashed Tuesday night in the Yichun area of northern China, state media said. The plane broke into two pieces and burst into flames.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the government downgraded the death toll from the crash from 43 to 42 after a body that was torn apart was previously counted twice, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Fifty-four people survived.<\/p>\n

The investigators’ initial focus was to find the flight data recorder — commonly known as the “black box” — that might yield clues as to what caused the Brazilian-made Embraer 190 jet to crash land in heavy fog on a patch of grass about 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) from the runway.<\/p>\n

The black box was found on the ground Wednesday morning, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n

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, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n

A Yichun vice-mayor told Xinhua that most of those taken to hospitals did not have life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

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