Chinese passenger jet slides off runway in nation's second aviation mishap this week
The China Eastern Airways Boeing-737 apparently failed to brake properly upon landing in the city of Wuyishan in the eastern province of Fujian where it had arrived after a brief flight from the airline's hub in Shanghai.
Photographs showed the plane mired in mud by the side of the runway, with stairs extended to its rear exit.
The accident was under investigation, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Calls to airline spokesmen rang unanswered on Wednesday.
The accident comes days after a military plane crashed amid mountains in eastern China on Sunday, killing all 40 people on board.
China has released little information about that crash. Beijing-backed newspapers in Hong Kong said the plane was a surveillance jet under development and called it China's worst-ever military aviation disaster.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered a top general to lead an investigation into the crash.
AP
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