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China: plane crashed with 132 people on board
The aircraft fell from an altitude of 8,000 meters and so far it is unknown if there is anyone alive.
This Monday, March 21, a plane carrying 132 people suffered an accident in southern China. It was a Boeing 737-800 and belonged to the China Eastern Airlines airline, which came from the cities of Kunming and Canton.
According to the information offered by the state channel CCTV, the aircraft had 132 people on board, of which 9 were part of the crew and the rest were passengers (123).
The news channel reported that the plane crashed in a rural area near the city of Wuzhou, in Guangxi, China.
According to the data offered by the flight tracking portal "FligtRadar24", the aircraft was flying at an altitude of 8,870 meters and in just three minutes it fell approximately 8,000 meters, and after the impact a fire started in the mountainous area where it landed. the plane ostentatiously.
So far the causes of the descent are unknown, it is only known that flight MU5735 took off at 1:15 pm, local time and shortly after it began to fail until it crashed.
Although the president of China, Xi Jinping, ordered to do everything necessary to rescue people, it has not yet been confirmed if there are fatalities, although it is presumed that none have been left alive.
From the moment the events occurred, rescue teams were sent from different parts of southern China, who after putting out the fire at the scene, proceeded to search for possible survivors, but so far none have been found.
For its part, the website, the profiles on Social Networks and the mobile application of the airline China Eastern Airlines, once they became aware of the accident, published images with black and white logos, as a sign of regret for what happened.
The Boeing 737-800 was produced seven years ago; and due to the disciplined and strict nature of China's aviation security, few such accidents have been recorded in this country. In fact, the last one happened in 2010, when an Embraer E-190 aircraft crashed while landing, leaving 44 passengers dead.
