A Boeing 737 passenger jet carrying 132 people has crashed in China, in accordance with a Chinese state media broadcast earlier today. Reports say the Chinese Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 went lacking earlier within the day because it was headed from Kunming to Guangzhou. The airplane was carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew.
The China Eastern Airlines plane plummeted rapidly then appears to have smashed into the hillside near town of Wuzhou in Teng county. The sudden nosedive of the plane has left plane accident specialists baffled as authorities battle to piece together the jet’s last minutes. The airplane was at cruise altitude when it abruptly went right into a extreme dive, plunging 26,000 ft in roughly 1 minute, 35 seconds, virtually straight down.
This afternoon, a broadcaster on CCTV reported that the jet crashed in Guangxi in southern China and fire could be seen from a mountain. Rescue teams at the second are responding to the scene. There was no phrase on the cause for the crash of the plane, a 6 12 months old 737-800 plane, according to Flightradar24.
Chinese Eastern Airlines says it is grounding all its Boeing 737-800s and that “the aircraft presently in the air would not carry extra flights after landing”.
Flight trackers report the aircraft was flying for just over an hour. On the QT went down close to the city of Wuzhou in Teng County. Guangxi is a southern province neighbouring Guangzhou, a major city in China’s south-east.
Video of the smoking wreckage here… https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_gYmchcYUgs