http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...5E1702,00.html
Sorry to cut and paste, but here goes:
53 die as plane crashes in lake
From correspondents in Beijing
21nov04
FIFTY-three people died when a passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off in northern China today.
China Eastern's flight MU-5210, bound for Shanghai, plunged into a lake in Nanhai Park just minutes after leaving from the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia at 8.20am (11.20am AEDT), the Xinhua news agency reported.
"There were 47 passengers on board and six crew members, and all died," the civil aviation authority said in a statement posted on its website.
Xinhua quoted Baotou government officials as confirming the death toll of 53.
A Xinhua reporter said that when he arrived at the scene 30 minutes after the crash, a huge fire was visible on the surface of the lake.
Firefighters were engaged in putting out the blaze, while others tried to salvage bodies from the wreckage.
"The cause of the crash is still under investigation," an official with China Eastern's office in Baotou said.
"We're gathering passenger information at the moment."
The civil aviation authority identified the plane as a CRJ-200, a regional jet which normally has capacity to carry 50 passengers.
