Chinese airliner crashes in Inner Mongolia

[blackhawk]

A passenger plane carrying more than 50 people crashed Sunday in northern China and the government said there likely were no survivors.
The plane crashed in Baotou, a city in the Inner Mongolia region, shortly after takeoff around 8:20 a.m. local time, China's Xinhua News Agency said. It was carrying 47 or 48 passengers, plus six crew members, and was headed to Shanghai, the agency said. It crashed into a frozen lake in Nanhai Park "only about a dozen seconds" after it took off, Xinhua said.
Police and firefighters were breaking the ice on the lake to search for victims, it added.
"Witnesses said the plane broke into flaming fragments," the report said, adding a house next to the park was damaged and several yachts were scorched. There was no immediate word on the cause.
A propaganda department official in Baotou said everyone aboard was killed, Xinhua said. The plane was a China Eastern Airlines CRJ-200 aircraft, it said.
A worker in the ticket office at Baotou Airport said the crash site is just outside the airport, in a park that surrounds a tributary of the Yellow River.
The area is about 540 kilometres northwest of the Chinese capital Beijing.

Source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/


Oops: as reported by SN.... (André)

[sn26567]

as reported by SN.... (André)

...here: https://www.aviation24.be/article6564.html

[Humberside]

Condolences to the families of the dead

[waldova]

This is again sad news for aviation. I really feel with the family that is waiting for the passengers. I hope they will find really fast what caused the accident so it can't happen again.

[Tannhauser]

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English: picture of crashed plane

[Avro]

Again some sad news.

[L-1011]

Very sad news

The cirumstances still sound strange to me...
Time will tell ..

deepest sympathies,

TriStar