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Safety concerns raised about China crash runway (AP)

Chinese paramilitary policemen stand guard near the damaged Henan Airlines plane which has crashed on landing in Yichun in northeast China's Heilongjiang province Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. A Chinese passenger jet crashed while trying to land on a fog-shrouded runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames late, killing 42 people and injuring 54 others, state media said Wednesday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP – At least one airline had questioned the safety of nighttime landings at the relatively new airport in northeast China where a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land at night on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54.


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Jet misses runway and crashes in China, killing 43 (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, the tail section of a plane sits amidst other wreckage of a reported plane crash at an airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. According to Xinhua, the plane overshot the runway in Yichun city and burst into flames. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Guangfu) NO SALESAP – A Chinese passenger jet broke apart as it approached a fog-shrouded runway in the country’s northeast and burst into flames as it hit the ground Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 53 others, state media said.


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Jet misses runway, crashes in China; 42 killed (AP)

Rescuers check the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province early August 25, 2010, in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Forty-nine passengers have been rescued after the plane, carrying more than 90 passengers, overshot the runway and crashed in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun on Tuesday, state television said. REUTERS/Xinhua/Li Guangfu (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT IMAGES OF THE DAY) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA. YESAP – A Chinese passenger jet overshot a fog-shrouded runway in the country’s northeast and burst into flames Tuesday, killing 42 people and injuring 49 others, state media said.


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Passenger plane with 96 on board crashes in China (AP)

AP – A Henan Airlines plane with 96 people on board crashed Tuesday in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province and rescuers were rushing to the scene, state media reported.

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China wants answers after 9 killed on hijacked bus (AP)

Members of the SWAT teams prepare to assault the tourist bus seized by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines. Police stormed the bus after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists and at least four of hte hostages crawled out of the back door. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP – China demanded answers Tuesday from the Philippines after a 12-hour hostage drama in the heart of Manila ended with eight Hong Kong tourists dead along with their Filipino hostage-taker after a day of botched negotiations.


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Rain batters China anew; 94,000 evacuated in flood (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers search for mudslide victims in Puladi Town, Gongshan of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Emergency crews recovered more bodies Saturday from the landslide that crushed the southwestern town of Puladi, nearly doubling the death toll from Wednesday's disaster to 23 with 69 others still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.  (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lin Yiguang) ** NO SALES **AP – Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.


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China holds day of mourning for landslide dead (AP)

Residents and rescue workers hold a memorial at the site of a mudslide that devastated the town of Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu province Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010.  (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP – Cinemas closed and coal miners stopped work as China observed a day of mourning Sunday for more than 1,200 victims of a mudslide a week earlier in a northwestern town, while authorities rushed to protect survivors from more flooding.


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