China plane crash: Tibet Airlines' flight catches fire after veering off runway, 40 injured
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A Tibet Airlines plane with 122 onboard caught fire and skidded off the runway after an aborted takeoff in the China's southwestern city of Chongqing on Thursday morning. A subsidiary of Air China, the Tibet Airlines was operating an Airbus A319 and was about to take off from the Chongqing Airport for Nyingchi in Tibet, when the incident happened. The aircraft is said to be a 10 year old plane, bearing B-6426 registration code.