image source,China News Service
Guangxi dispatched more than 500 firefighters to the crash site for search and rescue.
A Boeing 737 of China Eastern Airlines crashed in Wuzhou, Guangxi on its way from Kunming, Yunnan to Guangzhou, Guangdong, causing a wildfire. The cause of the accident and casualties are unknown.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Monday (March 21) that there were 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and nine crew members. The official China Central Television reported that the passenger plane fell into the mountains near Mozong Village, Langnan Town, Teng County, Wuzhou, and more than 500 firefighters from several cities and counties in Guangxi were dispatched to the scene to search and rescue. Chinese President Xi Jinping dispatched a State Council working group to the scene.
According to the international civil aviation tracking website flightradar24.com, the specific model of the crashed passenger plane was a Boeing 737-89P, a single-aisle jet passenger aircraft. It was flying flight MU5735 at the time of the incident. 11) Departure, scheduled to arrive at 15:05 (07:05 GMT), but lost contact at 14:22. According to the website, the plane was flying at an altitude of 3,225 feet (982 meters).
China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed in Teng County, Guangxi on the way from Kunming to Guangzhou.
The China Global Television Network (CGTN), which belongs to the China Central Radio and Television Station along with CCTV, also released photos of the suspected plane wreckage.
The official Xinhua news agency quoted Boeing China as saying that Boeing was gathering more information.
Boeing has been plagued by the safety issues of the 737 Max aircraft some time ago, but the China Eastern Airlines aircraft that crashed this time belongs to the previous 737-800 series. According to Chinese media reports, the crashed passenger plane was less than seven years old.
The last serious air crash on domestic flights can be traced back to the Yichun air crash in Heilongjiang in August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ190 passenger plane of Henan Airlines crashed, killing more than 40 people.
The most recent and most serious accident on an international flight to China was the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March 2014. The plane lost contact on its way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. There were 239 people on board, mostly Chinese.
MH370 has not yet been recovered.