A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed during landing at a forests-surrounded airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province amid thick fog late Tuesday.

By 3 a.m. Wednesday, at least 43 people were confirmed dead while the remaining 53 have been rescued and sent to hospitals, said Hua Jingwei, a top publicity official in Yichun City where the plane crashed. [Full story]

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