2010-08-26 15:37

YICHUN, Heilongjiang - The airport in Yichun, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, will reopen Thursday afternoon, 40 hours after the deadliest commercial plane crash in China in nearly six years killed 42 people.

An Airbus 320 took off from Harbin, the provincial capital, at 12:01 pm and will land at Lindu Airport of Yichun in about 40 minutes.

The plane took off from China's capital Beijing at 9 am and stopped over in Harbin before it left for Yichun.