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As reported by Chinese state television on Monday, the accident happened near Wuzhou in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi. Nothing was initially known about the victims and the circumstances of the accident. The machine was a Boeing 737-800NG. The aircraft manufacturer’s shares came under pressure in premarket US trading.
According to the first information, the aircraft with the flight number MU5735 was on its way from Kunming in the Yunnan province to Guangzhou in the Guangdong province. Rescue teams were assembled and sent to the scene of the accident in Teng County, state media reported.
In a video circulating on the Chinese internet, a high plume of smoke could be seen in the hills from a distance. Debris was also shown that local residents claim to have filmed with their cellphones. The authenticity of the videos could not be confirmed at first.
The aviation authority in Beijing confirmed the crash. There were 132 people on board, including nine crew members. In the first reports, there had been talk of 133 inmates.
The crash happened in a remote and hilly area of Teng County, about 300 kilometers from Guangzhou. A few minutes after the first reports of the accident, the status of the flight was changed to “crashed” in a mobile travel app. A forest fire developed after the crash.
Villagers: Crashed Boeing plane ‘completely destroyed’
After a plane crashed in southern China with 132 people on board, villagers said the plane was “completely destroyed.” The forest fire has now been extinguished, eyewitnesses reported on Monday, according to the Jimu Xinwen news site.
Firefighters and rescue teams, including local residents, were at the crash site in Teng County, south China’s Guangxi region. At first, nothing was known about the fate of the occupants of the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737.
The airline changed the color to gray on its website to express its sadness.
Air crash in China: Boeing machine crashed from a great height
The machine of the Chinese airline China Eastern Airlines with 132 passengers on board suddenly crashed from a great height. Flight data showed the Boeing 737 had flown at an altitude of more than 8,800 meters since takeoff from Kunming, China News reported on Monday. At 2:19 p.m. local time (7:19 a.m. CET), the plane suddenly dropped. Two minutes later, contact with flight MU5735 was lost.
The Boeing share is temporarily down 7.28 percent to $ 178.80 before the market.
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