Chinese province orders crash airline to drop name
China’s Henan province has ordered its namesake airline to change its name after it suffered China’s worst civil aviation disaster in nearly six years, saying that the accident had tarnished the province’s reputation.
A Henan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Tuesday while trying to land at night at a small airport in the country’s northeast, killing 42 people. Officials have yet to announce the cause of the crash but initial probes and survivors’ accounts indicate the plane missed the runway and crashed on the ground.