A Chinese passenger plane with 96 people on board overshot a fog-shrouded runway at an airport in northwest China’s Heilongjiang Province Tuesday night and burst into flames killing 43 of them and injuring 53 others, the state media said.

The ill-fated aircraft of the Henan Airlines crashed as it was to land at the Lindu airport in Yichun, said officials with Heilongjiang provincial government.

The airport was shrouded in fog when the incident took place.

The bodies of 43 passengers were recovered from the wreckage of the plane, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Another 53 injured passengers have been hospitalised, Hua Jingwei, head of the publicity department of the Yichun city committee of the ruling Communist Party of China said.

There were 96 passengers, including five children, and five crew members on board, officials with Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) were quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.