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The Henan Airlines plane crashed at 10:10 pm (1410 GMT) in Yichun, a small city in Heilongjiang province, after flying from Harbin, the province"s capital, state media said.

Forty-three bodies of people killed in the accident had already been found at the site where the plane split apart after overshooting the runway of Yichun airport, a city official, Jin Yi, told the China News Service.

The other 53 people on board "have all been taken to hospital for treatment, and at present none is in danger of loss of life," the report said, citing Jin. Their injuries included burns, cuts and broken limbs.

"The plane split apart on grass 1.5 kilometers from the runway and a small explosion happened as it did," Sun Bangnan, a deputy chief of police in Heilongjiang, told the China News Service.

Other Chinese news reports, citing unnamed witnesses or sources, said the plane began to fall apart or burst into flames before it overshot the runway.

The accident was a jolt for China"s fast-growing air sector, which has escaped disaster for several years thanks to relatively young fleets and stricter safety rules.

China"s last major civilian aircraft crash was in 2004, when a CRJ200 operated by China Eastern Airlines came down in a frozen lake in northern Inner Mongolia shortly after take-off, killing more than 50 people.

In 2002, a China Northern flight from Beijing to the port city of Dalian fell into the sea after the pilot reported a fire in the cabin, killing 112 people.

Henan Airlines is a small regional carrier controlled by Shenzhen Airlines, which is itself part-owned by Air China. The airline is based in Henan, a province in central China.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A passenger plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in northeast China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 42 people of 96 on board, the nation’s worst air disaster since 2004.

The accident will be a jolt for China’s fast-growing aviation sector, which has had no major accident in recent years, thanks to stricter safety rules, better training and relatively young fleets of mainly Western-made aircraft.

The Henan Airlines plane crashed at 9.36 p.m. (9:36 a.m. EDT) in Yichun, a remote city of one million in Heilongjiang province surrounded by forests, after flying from provincial capital Harbin, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said.

While the cause of the crash is still being investigated, Caijing magazine cited local rules as saying that Yichun airport is “in principle” not supposed to operate at night.

State media initially said 43 people had died but later revised down the death toll by one. Seven of the 54 survivors were severely injured, Yichun mayor Wang Aiwen was quoted as saying.

“When I looked out the window, I couldn’t see anything. There were no lights at all,” Xinhua quoted survivor Xue Xilai as saying. “Soon after that, the plane bounced heavily on the ground and then broke in two.”

There were 91 passengers, including five children, as well five crew members on board the ERJ-190, built by Brazil’s Embraer, Xinhua said. The passengers appeared to be mainland Chinese, except for one person from Taiwan.

“When the back part of the plane landed, I felt a strong jolt, and then the plane seemed to begin to come apart,” another survivor told state television from his hospital bed.

The report noted that the Communist Party boss of Yichun, Xu Zhaojun, had said the crew reported being able to see lights on the ground and had requested a normal landing.

By daylight on Wednesday police had sealed off the scene of twisted and burned wreckage and the bodies of the dead were wrapped in body bags, waiting to be taken to a morgue, said Xinhua.

Technicians from Embraer, the world’s largest maker of regional jets, flew on Tuesday to China to investigate the crash [ID:nN245116]. Embraer shares tumbled 3.9 percent to 10.42 reais in Sao Paulo.

Henan Airlines is a small regional carrier controlled by Shenzhen Airlines, itself part-owned by Air China. The airline is based in Henan, a poor province in central China, and recently changed its name from Kunpeng Airlines.

China’s last major civilian aircraft crash was in 2004, when a CRJ200 operated by China Eastern Airlines came down in a frozen lake in northern Inner Mongolia shortly after take-off, killing more than 50 people.

Another passenger plane overshot the runway during landing in a city in China but caused no casualties, just hours after an aircraft crashed killing 42 people and injuring 54, officials said.

The plane operated by Tianjin Airlines overshot the runway at the Wuyu International Airport in Nanning city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wednesday and slid on to the grassy patches. Several runway lights were broken but there were no reports of casualties or damages to the plane, officials said Thursday. (Watch: Dramatic air crashes)

The accident occurred just hours after an aircraft missed the runway and crashed to the ground in Yichun city in Heilongjiang province, killing 42 people and injuring 54.

China Airlines Flight 605 (callsign "Dynasty 605") was a daily non-stop flight departing from Taipei at 6:30 a.m. and arriving at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong at 7:00 a.m. local time. On November 4, 1993, the plane went off the runway while landing during a storm.Boeing 747-400.

The aircraft involved was a almost-new Boeing 747-400 registered as B-165. It was only five months old at the time of the accident, having been built in June 1993. The aircraft was powered by four Pratt & Whitney PW4056 turbofan engines and had only 1,969 flight hours with 359 takeoff and landing cycles at the time of the accident.: 11–17

The 47-year-old captain had previously served with the Republic of China Air Force and joined China Airlines in 1984. He started flying the 747 (the older -200 variant) in 1988 and was upgraded to a captain of the 747-400 in 1990. At the time of the accident, the captain had logged a total of 12,469 flight hours, including 3,559 hours on the Boeing 747. The 37-year-old first officer joined the airline in 1992, having previously served with the Republic of China Army. He had 5,705 hours, though only 953 of them were on the Boeing 747.: 8–9

Flight 605 touched down more than 2,100 feet (640 m) past the runway"s displaced threshold, at a speed of 150 knots (280 km/h; 170 mph), following an IGS runway 13 approach. Tropical Storm Ira was generating 20-knot (37 km/h; 23 mph) crosswinds on that runway, gusting to 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph), from a heading of 070 degrees.

The pilots received several computer-generated wind shear and glide slope deviation warnings, and observed severe airspeed fluctuations, during the last mile before touchdown. The captain, who was the pilot flying, disconnected the auto-pilot and began flying the plane manually. He also disconnected the auto-throttle as he was dissatisfied with its performance. After the aircraft landed, the First Officer took control of the plane and attempted to keep the aircraft on the centerline. However, his inputs were too severe and the Captain was forced to aid him. Meanwhile, the Captain inadvertently increased engine power rather than activating the thrust reversers. The auto brakes were set at only the number two level and then were turned off seconds after touchdown due to the increase in power. The speedbrakes were extended briefly, but then retracted, also due to the power increase. This caused the plane to "float", making the brakes ineffective until the speed brakes were extended again. When the First Officer finally noticed that the auto-brakes were disarmed and the thrust reversers had not deployed, the captain immediately applied manual braking and thrust reversal.

The captain deliberately turned the plane to the left when he realized the plane would overrun the runway and hit the approach lighting system (ALS) for runway 31. That action caused a "ground loop", making the plane slide off the left side of the runway into Victoria Harbour. The plane came to rest in shallow water, with a heading of almost 180 degrees out from the direction of runway 13.

The investigation indicated that the accident was caused by the captain"s failure to initiate the mandatory missed approach procedure when he observed the severe airspeed fluctuations, combined with the wind shear and glide slope deviation alerts. The first officer was also found to not have enough experience to handle the aircraft while landing in crosswind conditions. China Airlines was also criticized for not having a clear crosswind landing procedure in their manuals to aid pilots. The investigation recommended that the airline revise its manuals and flight training.

Immediately after the aircraft came to rest in the water, crew members ensured that all passengers donned life jackets and evacuated onto eight of the ten main deck emergency exits. These exits (as on all 747s) are equipped with inflatable evacuation slide/rafts for ditching emergencies. The passenger cabin remained completely above water during the evacuation, although eventually sinking tail-first. Additional damage to the nose and first-class cabin was noted. There were 23 minor injuries among passengers and crew.

The plane was written off as a total hull loss. Since the plane"s vertical stabilizer interfered with the accuracy of the instrument landing system signals for runway 31 – which allowed aircraft to make safe ILS approaches whenever the wind patterns mandated the use of runway 31 (the reciprocal direction of runway 13) – the vertical stabilizer was removed with dynamite shortly after the crash.HAECO building for use in firefighting practice.

China Airlines still continued to use the flight number 605 on its Taipei-Hong Kong routes until 2015. As of November 2021, the flight numbers serving the said route are 903, 641, 909, 915, 919, 923, 921 and 601, flown on a mixed fleet of Boeing 747, Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 737 aircraft, and currently operates out of Chek Lap Kok airport.

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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese passenger jet overshot a fog-shrouded runway in the country"s northeast and burst into flames Tuesday, killing 42 people and injuring 49 others, state media said.

China Central Television quoted Sun Bangnan, deputy director of the Heilonjiang Public Security Department, as saying that 42 bodies had been recovered and that 49 people were rescued and taken to local hosptials.

The plane, which Xinhua said was Brazilian-made Embraer E-190 jet, had taken off from Heilongjiang"s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) and crashed in heavy fog during landing at the Lindu airport a little more than an hour later.

An official surnamed Qi at the Yichun No. 1 People"s Hospital said 30 people had been brought there for treatment, with most suffering broken bones.

A man who would only give his surname, Wang, at the Yichun Rehabilitation Hospital, which has burn specialists on site, said 10 survivors were transferred there with burn injuries.

Another eight survivors were at the Yichun Forestry Hospital, said a duty officer surnamed Zhou. He said he did not know the nature of their injuries.

There were five children and five crew members on board, Xinhua cited an unnamed official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China as saying. It was not known how many of them survived.

Henan Airlines is based in the central Chinese province of the same name and flies smaller regional jets, mainly on routes in north and northeast China. Previously known as Kunpeng Airlines, the carrier was relaunched as Henan Airlines earlier this year.

Henan Airlines and many other regional Chinese airlines flying shorter routes have struggled in the past few years, losing passengers to high-speed railroad lines that China has aggressively expanded.

An American company, Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc., was an original investor in Henan"s predecessor company, Kunpeng, but divested its stake last year. Mesa operates regional services in the U.S. for Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and other carriers and is undergoing bankruptcy reorganization.

Full-tilt expansion of Chinese air traffic in the 1990s led to a series of crashes that gave China the reputation of being unsafe. The poor record prompted the government to improve safety drastically, from airlines to new air traffic management systems at airports.

The last major passenger jet crash in China was in November 2004, when an China Eastern airplane plunged into a lake in northern China shortly, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground.

An MD-11 cargo plane operated by Zimbabwe-based Avient Aviation crashed during takeoff from Shanghai"s main airport last November. Three American crew members died while four others on board were injured.

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In this Dec. 2009 photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, a Henan Airlines plane, reported by Xinhua to be the same model of aircraft that crashed Tuesday at an airport in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, lands near Xiaoshan airport in Zhejiang province. (AP Photo/Xinhua) NO SALES

Aviation officials at a relatively new airport in northeast China searched through debris Wednesday for clues to why a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54 others.

The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and five crew crashed late Tuesday in a grassy area near the Lindu airport on the outskirts of Yichun. Five of those onboard were children, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said, and at least one, an 8-year-old boy, survived.

It was China’s first major commercial air disaster in nearly six years. The plane’s black box was recovered, Xinhua reported, but it is still not known what caused the accident.

The newly built Yichun airport sits in a forested valley and has operated for a year, and concerns about the safety of night landings there had been raised by at least one major airline.

China Southern Airlines decided last August to avoid night flights in and out of Yichun, switching its daily flight from Harbin to the daytime. A technical notice cited concerns about the airport’s surrounding terrain, runway lighting and wind and weather conditions.

“Principally there should be no night flights at Yichun airport,” said the notice from China Southern’s Heilongjiang province branch that was posted online. An employee with the branch’s technical office confirmed the notice’s authenticity. He declined to give his name because he was not authorized to talk to the media, but said China Southern decided to cancel night flights at Yichun “for safety concerns. We’re cautious.”

The crash and fire were so severe that little of the fuselage remained, though the charred tail was still largely intact. China Central Television said eight of the victims were found 65 to 100 feet (20 to 30 meters) from the plane’s wreckage in a muddy field.

The official Xinhua News Agency said officials had earlier reported 43 dead because one body was torn apart in the crash and had been counted as two. It said the pilot, Qi Quanjun, survived the crash but was badly hurt and cannot speak.

One of the dead was a Chinese with a foreign passport, according to Xinhua, but it did not give the nationality. It also said a passenger from Taiwan was hurt.

The Brazilian-made Embraer E-190 jet had taken off from Heilongjiang’s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) and crashed a little more than an hour later while arriving at Yichun, a city of about 1 million people 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the Russian border.

A middle-age man who survived the crash told China Central Television there was bad turbulence as the plane descended, then several big jolts that caused the luggage to come crashing from the overhead bins.

“After we stopped, the people in the back were panicking and rushed to the front,” the unidentified man, who had no visible injuries, said in an interview from a hospital bed. “We were trying to open the (emergency exits) but they wouldn’t open. Then the smoke came in ... within two or three minutes or even a minute, we couldn’t breathe. I knew something bad was going to happen.”

Ji told Xinhua that the evacuation slide, which was on fire, broke as he was sliding down. “I fell to the ground. Again someone dragged me aside,” he said. He was speaking from his hospital bed, where he had bruises on his face, neck and arms.

Eighteen officials from China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and various provincial branches were on the flight, headed to a meeting in Yichun, Xinhua said. It said Vice Minister Sun Baoshu was in critical condition with broken bones and head injuries.

Wang Xuemei, vice mayor of Yichun, told CCTV that three of the 54 injured were in critical condition but he gave no details. The Yichun city Communist Party published an online list of victims with 42 names. They ranged in age from 12, a girl, to 55.

Henan Airlines is based in the central Chinese province of the same name and flies smaller regional jets, mainly on routes in north and northeast China. Previously known as Kunpeng Airlines, the carrier was relaunched as Henan Airlines earlier this year. It launched the Yichun-Harbin service this year.

Henan Airlines, which on Wednesday suspended all its flights, and many other regional Chinese airlines flying shorter routes have struggled in the past few years, losing passengers to high-speed railroad lines that China has aggressively expanded.

Full-tilt expansion of Chinese air traffic in the 1990s led to a series of crashes that gave China the reputation of being unsafe. The poor record prompted the government to improve safety drastically, from airlines to new air traffic management systems at airports.

The last major passenger jet crash in China was in November 2004, when an China Eastern airplane plunged into a lake in northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground.

The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and five crew crashed late Tuesday in a grassy area near the Lindu airport on the outskirts of Yichun, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Five of those onboard were children, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said, but their fates were immediately not known.

The crash and subsequent fire were so severe that little of the fuselage remained, though the charred tail was still largely intact. China Central Television said eight of the victims were found 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet) from the plane"s wreckage in a muddy field.

The Brazilian-made Embraer E-190 jet had taken off from Heilongjiang"s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) and crashed a little more than an hour later while arriving at Yichun, Xinhua said. Yichun is a city of about 1 million people located 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border.

A middle-aged man who survived the crash told China Central Television there was bad turbulence as the plane descended, then several big jolts that caused the luggage to come crashing down from the overhead bins.

"After we stopped, the people in the back were panicking and rushed to the front," the unidentified man, who had no visible injuries, said in an interview from a hospital bed. "We were trying to open the (emergency exits) but they wouldn"t open. Then the smoke came in ... within two or three minutes or even a minute, we couldn"t breathe. I knew something bad was going to happen."

Xinhua said early Wednesday that 43 bodies were recovered within hours of the disaster and 53 people were hospitalized, most with broken bones. It later changed the death toll to 42 with 54 injured. The Yichun city Communist Party published an online list of victims with 42 names.

Xinhua quoted Hua Jingwei, an Yichun publicity official, as saying the jet broke into two pieces while approaching the runway and some passengers were thrown from the cabin before the plane hit the ground. His account could not be confirmed and accounts from survivors did not seem to indicate that the plane broke into two before the crash.

The plane"s black box had not yet been found and the cause of the crash was not yet known, Xinhua said. But it reported that the Civil Aviation Administration of China held a meeting last year to discuss technical problems Chinese carriers had experienced with ERJ-190s jets, including incorrect information displayed by the flight control system.

Henan Airlines is based in the central Chinese province of the same name and flies smaller regional jets, mainly on routes in north and northeast China. Previously known as Kunpeng Airlines, the carrier was relaunched as Henan Airlines earlier this year.

Henan Airlines and many other regional Chinese airlines flying shorter routes have struggled in the past few years, losing passengers to high-speed railroad lines that China has aggressively expanded.

An American company, Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc., was an original investor in Henan"s predecessor company, Kunpeng, but divested its stake last year. Mesa operates regional services in the U.S. for Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and other carriers and is undergoing bankruptcy reorganization.

Full-tilt expansion of Chinese air traffic in the 1990s led to a series of crashes that gave China the reputation of being unsafe. The poor record prompted the government to improve safety drastically, from airlines to new air traffic management systems at airports.

The last major passenger jet crash in China was in November 2004, when an China Eastern airplane plunged into a lake in northern China shortly, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground.

An MD-11 cargo plane operated by Zimbabwe-based Avient Aviation crashed during takeoff from Shanghai"s main airport last November. Three American crew members died while four others on board were injured.

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A Korean Air jet lies with its belly on the runway at the airport in Cebu, the Philippines on October 24, 2022, after it overshot the runway on late October 23 while landing in bad weather. Photo: VCG

A Korean Air jet with 173 people on board overshot the runway at Cebu International Airport in the Philippines late on Sunday, the airline said, adding that there were no injuries and all passengers had evacuated safely.

The Airbus A330 widebody flying from Seoul to Cebu had tried twice to land in poor weather before it overran the runway on the third attempt at 23:07 (15:07 GMT), Korean Air said in a statement on Monday.

"Passengers have been escorted to three local hotels and an alternative flight is being arranged," the airline said of flight KE631. "We are currently identifying the cause of the incident."

Korean Air President Keehong Woo issued an apology on the airline"s website, saying a thorough investigation would be carried out by Philippine and South Korean ­authorities to determine the cause.

The A330-300 jet involved in the accident was delivered new to Korean Air in 1998, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, which said that other flights to Cebu had ­diverted to other airports or returned to their origin.

The Cebu airport said on its Facebook page that it had temporarily closed the runway to allow for the removal of the plane, meaning all domestic and international flights were cancelled until further notice.

A Boeing 737 aircraft, operated by China Eastern Airlines and carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew members, crashed in southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday afternoon while on its way to southern Guangzhou City from southwestern Kunming City.

China has one of the world"s strongest air safety records in the past two decades, and the rare crash reminded many of the vast grounding of Boeing 737 Max planes after two catastrophic crash disasters in less than five months in Indonesia and Ethiopia, respectively.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China only just gave approval for the Boeing 737 Max in December, setting the stage for the jet to return to airline schedules in the country this year.

Flight tracking apps show the model involved in the China Eastern Airlines crash to be a Boeing 737-800, a part of the Boeing 737 NG (Next Generation) along with 737-700 and 737-900.

The single-aisle 737-800 is one of the most popular aircraft in the sky. It last made global headlines when dozens of older Boeing 737 planes were grounded worldwide in late 2019 due to cracking in the "pickle fork," a component between wing and fuselage.

The United States Federal Aviation Authority issued a directive for immediate inspection of all 737 NGs that had seen heavy use, and more than 50 were grounded by airlines around the world.

This file photo taken on May 29, 2020 shows a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft parked at the Tianhe Airport in Wuhan, central China"s Hubei Province.

On March 1, 2022, the Chinese low-cost carrier diverted the flight to an alternative airport due to a fire in the luggage compartment of the Boeing 737-800. All passengers and crew members were safely evacuated.

On August 7, 2020, the Boeing 737-800 scheduled from Dubai to India"s Kozhikode to repatriate Indian nationals stranded due to the COVID-19 pandemic, failed two landing attempts amid heavy rain. It overshot the runway on the third attempt, killing 19 passengers and both pilots. Four cabin crew members and 165 passengers survived.

On February 5, 2020, the Boeing 737-800 scheduled from Izmir to Istanbul in Turkey skidded off the runway when landing. Three people were killed and 179 injured.

On March 10, 2019, the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, scheduled from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing 157 people on board.

On October 29, 2018, the Boeing 737 Max, operated by the Indonesian airline, crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 passengers and crew.

A Korean Air plane has overshot the runway while landing in bad weather in the central Philippines, but no injuries were reported among the 173 people on board, according to authorities.

The 11 crew members and 162 passengers on Korean Air flight KE631 used emergency slides to escape from the damaged aircraft, officials and the airline said.

The plane remained stuck in the grass at the end of the lone runway at the Mactan Cebu International Airport on Monday, forcing the closure of the airport.

The Airbus A330 from Incheon, South Korea, had attempted to land twice before overshooting the runway on the third attempt, Korean Air Lines Co said in a statement.

“Passengers have been escorted to three local hotels and an alternative flight is being arranged,” the airline said of flight KE361. “We are currently identifying the cause of the incident.”

Korean Air President Woo Kee-hong issued a letter of apology regarding the flight on the airline’s website, noting that a thorough investigation would be performed with local aviation authorities and Korean authorities to determine the cause.

The pilot of a China Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter that undershot a runway at Taipei Taoyuan International Airport had inadequate rest — thanks to a crying baby at home — which affected his alertness.

Releasing its final report into the 2018 incident, the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB) also found that the co-pilot, who was flying the plane, inappropriately operated the freighter as it landed.

On 13 December 2018, the 747-400 freighter, registered B-18717, was operating flight CI 6844 from Hong Kong to Taipei Taoyuan. Its main landing gear touched down about 27m before the runway touchdown point and struck several runway lights. The hard landing also caused minor damage to the main landing gear tires.

Investigations revealed that the 30-year-old co-pilot, who was the pilot flying, had disengaged autopilot after the aircraft descended past 1,800 feet.

As the freighter approached Runway 05L, it appeared that the altitude was higher than the approach glide path. While the altitude got corrected immediately, at around 137 feet the aircraft again began to fall below the glide path.

Investigations revealed that the co-pilot had failed to maintain the normal speed and rate of descent by utilising pitch control and thrust. He failed to determine his mistake in time, which led to the hard landing before the touchdown point.

Investigations also revealed that two days before the incident, the 44-year-old pilot had poor sleep quality after returning from a late night flight, because of a crying baby in his home.

The night before the incident, the baby’s crying also affected his sleep quality. This affected alertness during the flight, especially when his colleague had issues on final approach.

“When the aircraft had an abnormal situation, it was too late to take-over the operation, or call [for a] go-around, [and] it caused the hard landing,” the board states.

Furthermore, after the freighter undershot the runway, the crew did not report the incident to the airline, instead heading home after their duties were done.

To this end, the TTSB has urged China Airlines to beef up training for its junior pilots on manual landing capabilities. At the same time, it is recommending that the SkyTeam carrier enforce the upgrading of skills of less-experienced pilots and co-pilots.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A damaged Korean Air plane remained stuck in the grass at a central Philippine airport Monday after it overshot a runway in rainy weather the night before. No injuries were reported among the 162 passengers and 11 crewmembers who escaped from the aircraft using emergency slides.

Dozens of flights have been canceled and Mactan-Cebu International Airport, one of the country’s busiest, remained closed due to the stalled aircraft at the end of its lone usable runway.

The terrifying close call prompted a public apology from Korean Air’s president and a vow from one of Asia’s most prominent airlines to take steps to prevent a recurrence.

“We always prioritize safety in all of our operations, and we truly regret the stress and inconvenience brought to our passengers,” Korean Air President Woo Keehong said in a statement.

The front underbelly of the plane was sheared off and its nose was heavily damaged. The plane lay tipped forward on a grassy area with its front landing wheel not visible and emergency slides deployed at the doors. A ripped-open hole was also visible at the top of the plane near a front door.

Philippine officials said the plane’s remaining fuel would be siphoned off before efforts begin to remove the aircraft at the runway’s end. Authorities were also assessing if the other aircraft that are stranded at the airport could be allowed to fly out safely.

The Airbus A330 flying from Incheon, South Korea, attempted to land twice before overrunning the runway on the third attempt, Korean Air Lines Co. said in a statement.

In 1981, A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 jetliner overshot the runway while taking off from Manila’s international airport and skidded to a stop at the edge of a major highway. The accident injured more than a dozen of about 350 people onboard.

The plane hit a concrete fence and skidded to a halt on its belly with its front section frighteningly protruding over a busy side road of a key highway south of metropolitan Manila.