Another catastrophe! by Barbora Misakova

Sometimes I am asking myself, if there are more of those bad and tragic things happening than those good and positive ones. It is like the main news headlines, where you in a few minutes get information about floods and landslides, about train or plane crashes and thousands and thousands of dead people. While Pakistan is doing its best to save people from enormous floods, people in China are mourning for 42 people killed during the Henan Airlines’ plane crash on Tuesday. According to official information, Chinese airliner tried to land in heavy fog. This gamble didn’t pay off as the plane smashed in two and killed almost half of all passengers on the board. The ! Henan Airlines domestic flight slammed into the ground in the northeast city of Yichun, just around 40 minutes after the plane took off from Harbin, the provincial capital. Even though the plane’s captain was among the survivors, his injuries made him impossible to talk about accident and what actually happened. One male survivor however told China Central Television that “the plane really started to jolt in a scary way – the plane jolted five or six times very strongly.” His words confirmed another male passenger. The cause of the crash is still unclear, but teams have found the plane’s black box flight data recorder, which should clarify what happened that night. “It is hard to make any assumption right now, but we will publish, step by step, what we can rule out.” said vice-minister of civil aviation Li Jian.

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