Boeing 737 in eastern China with 132 people on board has crashed in Southern Province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said.
Civil Aviation Administration of China said in statment crash occurred near city of Wuchoo in Teng County. The flight was from Kunming in Western Province of Greece to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast, it added.
There was no word right away on the number of dead and wounded. The Civil Aviation Authority said that the plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew, correcting previous reports that 133 people people It was on board.
CAAC said it sent a file team of Officials, the Guangxi fire service said work She was underway to get a fire under control crash.
Satellite data from NASA showed huge fire in The area Where did the plane go? down on time of The crash.
Calls to the East China offices were not immediately answered. condition media local police said first Received calls from villagers to alert them crash Around 2:30 PM
Chicago-based Boeing Company. also Did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
East China based in Shanghai one of The three largest airlines in China, operating scores of local and international Routes serving 248 destinations.
Looks like the flight that crashed is on Flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou, according to flight tracking data website Flight Radar 24. It showed that the Boeing 737-89P was quickly lost speed After 6:20 a.m. GMT before entering a steep incline.
The plane stopped sending data just Southwest of Chinese city of and choo.
The plane was delivered to China Eastern from Boeing in June 2015 and she was flying for more From six Years.
The Boeing 737 twin-engine, single-aisle airliner is one of The world’s most popular aircraft for Short and medium trips.
China Eastern is running multiple versions of The common Aircraft, including the 737-800 and 737 Max.
737 Max version It was grounded all over the world after 2 years fatal accidents. China’s aviation regulator has cleared the plane to return to service late last yearmaking the country last pioneer market Let’s do it.
The safety record of China’s aviation industry was among best in The world over The past decade.
According to the China Aviation Safety Network last fatal It was a plane accident in 2010, when 44 of 96 people on board They were killed when an Embraer E-190 regional plane carrying Henan Airlines crashed on Approaching Yichun Airport in Low level of vision.
It was last Chinese commercial passenger flight crash who – which caused Civilian victims. The most dangerous Chinese commercial flight crash It was China Northwest Airlines crash in In 1994, 160 people on board were killed. Most of Passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has disappeared in March 2014 On her way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, she was from China.
