Safety fears raised about China crash runway

At least one airline had questioned the safety of night-time landings at the relatively new airport in north-east China where a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land at night on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54, it was revealed today.

The Henan Airlines plane crashed in a grassy area near Lindu airport in the Heilongjiang province city of Yichun yesterday.