BEIJING // Forty-nine passengers have been rescued after a plane carrying more than 90 passengers overshot the runway and crashed in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun this evening, state television said. The Henan Airlines plane, travelling from Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, crashed at around 10.10pm, state media said. Yichuan Vice Mayor Wang Xuemei said three people were seriously injured. Chinese media reports said there were a total of 91 passengers on board. 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. Yichun airport is a small domestic airport which opened only last year, and is one of an increasing number of airports built in remote parts of China to help boost economic development. * Reuters