China Northern MD-82 crashed in northern China.
Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese airliner with 112 passengers and crew aboard crashed Tuesday in a city in northeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said rescue efforts were under way but gave no immediate information about any survivors.
The China Northern Airlines jet crashed in Dalian, a port city on the northeastern coast, 280 miles east of Beijing, Xinhua said. The agency's Chinese-language service said the plane disappeared over water.

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Fire reported in Cabin

DALIAN, China (CNN) -- A China Northern Airlines plane crashed in the sea Tuesday near this city in Liaoning Province.

The Xinhua News Agency said the plane crashed after the captain reported a fire in the cabin.

Xinhua quoted airline officials as saying there were 103 passengers plus a crew of nine aboard the plane. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.

The plane was on a flight from Beijing when it went down about 20 km east of Dalian, in northeast China.

The plane was an MD-82, Flight 6136.

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China Hunts Crash Plane's 'Black Box'

May 9, 2002

A full scale search is under way for the missing 'black box' flight recorder of the Chinese passenger jet which crashed on Tuesday killing all 112 people on board.

Search teams have received signals from the data recorder but the hull of the plane has not yet been located.

At a press conference Thursday, Chinese officials acknowledged that there is now little hope of finding survivors from the China Northern Airlines MD-82 which plunged into the sea while on a flight from Beijing to Dalian in the north-east of the country.

A massive search for the wreckage of the aircraft is being carried out, involving over 40 ships and 50 divers. Sophisticated sonar equipment and GPS positioning systems are being used in the hunt.


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