A plane with 132 onboard crashes in Guangxi, casualties unknown

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A China Eastern Boeing 737 with 132 onboard crashed and caused a mountain fire in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the number of casualties is not clear yet, the official website of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said on Monday afternoon. 

This is the first air crash in China since a fatal incident in Yichun, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province back in 2010. The Yichun crash killed 44 people.

The plane, MU 5735 took off from Kunming Changshui airport in Southwest China's Yunnan Province at 13:15, and was scheduled to arrive at Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province at 15:07. 

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The plane has 132 onboard, including 123 passengers, and nine crew members. 

CAAC has dispatched a working group to the site.

At present, rescue teams have been deployed and are approaching the crash site.

Flight data from information provider VariFlight showed that after flight MU5735 took off from Kunming airport, it had been cruising at an altitude of about 8869 meters. At 2:19 p.m, the aircraft suddenly descended from cruising altitude, while flight speed also began to decrease from about 845 kilometers per hour. At 2:21, flight MU5735 lost its ADS-B radar signal also losing contact with the ground.

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Judging from aircraft data, there is no information on the pilot's ground information contact.

The aircraft involved is a Boeing 737, belonging to the Yunnan subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines and has been in operation of just over six and a half years. The plane was delivered in June of 2015.

As of February 19, 2022, the continuous safe flight time of China's civil aviation transport aviation had exceeded 100 million hours, 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.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: CH

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