BREAKING: Aircraft With 132 Onboard Crashes In China
A China Eastern Boeing 737 carrying 132 passengers was involved in an accident that resulted in a mountain fire in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, according to CCTV on Monday afternoon.
The jet, MU 5735, took off at 13:15 from Kunming Changshui airport in Yunnan Province, Southwest China, and was due to arrive at 15:07 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, South China.
Rescue crews have been sent and are on their way to the collision scene, according to Xinhua.
As of press time, China Eastern Airlines has not responded to requests for comment.
The plane in question is a Boeing 737 that belongs to China Eastern Airlines’ Yunnan affiliate and has been in service for just over six and a half years. In June of 2015, the plane was delivered.
The aircraft has a total of 162 seats, with 12 in business class and 150 in economy class.
China’s civil aviation transport aviation had exceeded 100 million hours of continuous safe flight time as of February 19, 2022, representing the best safety performance in the history of China’s civil aviation industry and the best continuous safe flight record in the history of civil aviation worldwide.
China Eastern Airlines’ stock dropped more than 10% in premarket trading in the United States.
