China kept a remarkable air travel safety record of 2,102 days - or more than five years - without accidents before the passenger plane crash in Yichun of Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, civil aviation authorities said.

Medical workers in a hospital in Yichun city, Heilongjiang province, on Wednesday treat a man injured in a deadly plane crash that killed at least 42 passengers on Tuesday night.

On Tuesday night, a Brazilian-made ERJ-190 jet owned by Henan Airlines that carried 96 people on board crashed during its landing at the airport in Yichun. At least 42 were killed while the rest were hospitalized, officials said early on Wednesday.

Medical workers in a hospital in Yichun city, Heilongjiang province, on Wednesday treat a man injured in a deadly plane crash that killed at least 42 passengers on Tuesday night. [For China Daily]

Investigations on the crash started on Wednesday morning and are still under way.

Before the crash, the country's civil aviation industry had kept a safety record of 2,102 days, "the longest in China's history", an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

At least 74 planes currently operating on the Chinese mainland are manufactured by Brazilian aviation manufacturer Embraer. The number of ERJ-190 planes operating in China is unclear.

Technical problems have occurred among Chinese carriers using the ERJ-190 jets, Xinhua News Agency reported.