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Plane with 96 on board crashes in NE China - report


    LONDON (Reuters) - A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed in Yichun City in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday night, Xinhua news agency quoted government and airline company sources as saying.

    Xinhua said the plane, which had taken off about an hour earlier from the provincial capital, Harbin, belonged to Henan Airlines. It gave no further details.

    Officials in Yichun said the plane crashed at about 1010 p.m. Emergency services were rushing to the scene.

    (Writing by Ralph Boulton)