Henan Airlines Crash in China
 

Plane crashes in northeast China, 96 people on board

English.news.cn 2010-08-24 23:34:13

HARBIN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed in Yichun City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province Tuesday night, government and airline company sources said.

The plane belonged to Henan Airlines and had 96 people on board when it crashed, airline company said.

Officials in Yichun said the plane crashed at about 10:10 p.m. Tuesday.

Rescuers are rushing to the crash site, sources said.

CH-Aviation have the following registered:

Henan Airlines
Status: Scheduled
Base: Xian Xianyang IATA Code: VDICAO Code: KPA
Website: www.kunpeng-air.com Country: China
Fleet: 5 EMB190-100

Just seen LoadToad's post, so it does indeed look like it is Henan Airlines; my error.

I believe this is the first fatal accident for the Embraer 170/190 (if indeed it is a fatal accident, as reports suggest).

There is a Henan Airlines.
Henan is a province in China.

Henan Airlines, previously Kunpeng Airlines.

http://www.kunpeng-air.com/

And thus it starts.

Aviation expansion has never been without problems in any country's history.

What will be interesting to see is the outcome...especially for the pilots...assuming we ever find out the full and unedited truth which can be a problem even in developed countries.

Anyone got access to weather info?

EDIT:
Fresh Xinhua report indicate the type is E90 instead of E190. But the airline never acquire E90 plane. Is there a type call E90?

Just reported on Sky News that 20 taken to hospital.
No reports of fatalities yet so possibly a runway excursion/overrun

Salivamonster, the code given by the news agency is just the three letter aircraft code, much like "73G" for 737-700, "77L" for 777-200LR etc etc; the aircraft is an Embraer 190.

The latest info from flight is that the accident happened on landing and survivors are reported; the aircraft was operating a flight from Harbin to Yichun; total on board now revised to 91.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...190-crash.html

From USA Today
 

Airport at Yichun City in Heilongjiang province.
Henan Airlines Embraer E190.
Overshot the runway.

Source

Runway overrun. Casualty report as follows:
42 dead
49 injured

CBC News - World - Northeast China plane crash kills 42

from the Avherald Report:

If the visibility and available approaches are as stated in the report this one is going to get really ugly, really quickly.

Can someone post a link to some aerial imagery of ZYLD? The Google Earth image of the location predates the construction of the field by ~5 years.

From Telegraph online (UK) 7.21 pm yesterday:
The Henan Airlines plane crashed in Heilongjiang province’s Yichun City, according to state media, who said 49 of the 91 passengers had been rescued. State media last night confirmed 42 passengers had been killed.
Wang Xuemei, vice mayor of Yichun, told Chinese television that three of the 49 hospitalized were in critical condition but gave no specifics.
The plane had taken off from Heilongjiang’s capital of Harbin shortly before 9pm and crashed during landing at the Lindu airport a little more than an hour later.
China’s last major civilian aircraft crash was in 2004, when a CRJ200 operated by China Eastern Airlines came down in a frozen lake in northern Inner Mongolia shortly after take-off, killing more than 50 people.
Yichun airport is a small domestic facility which opened only last year, and is one of an increasing number of airports built in remote parts of China to help boost economic development.
Henan Airlines is a small regional carrier controlled by Shenzhen Airlines, which is itself part-owned by Air China. The airline is based in Henan, a province in central China.
It changed its name from Kunpeng Airlines earlier this year and flies only domestic routes using the Brazilian-made Embraer.

Here are some info glanced from a safety audit by China Southern which is currently floating around on the internet. Some info may not be accurate as charts for this airport are proprietary information.

AFAIK No ILS at ZYYC Yichun, VOR-DME/NDB-DME only.

Runway 12/30, dimensions 2300m/45m

Rwy 12 approach has higher MDH, a/c on approach to level at MDH at 4 DME.

Procedure turn for rwy 30 approach starts at 3800ft due to steep terrain, (note not in meters) descent gradient 5.8 deg. (FPA 3.4 deg)

Night ops to be banned on 1st September. (Note the report is for CZ)

Flights from Harbin must carry return fuel in case weather stuffs up.

IMO it looks like a CFIT during approach, rather than a runway overrun.

Edit:Typo

Henan E190 Crash
 

The pilot in command is alive but could not tell what had happened.

Government Controlled Information
 

Take note that ALL forms of reporting through the News Papers, Eye Witness Reports on TV, etc. are sensored in China.
"Facts" may take a while to be made available.

..IF they ever come out unsanitized :oh:

All reporting, by any media - state or corporation owned is censored. Mostly simplified and usually sensationalized.