A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 flying between the Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou crashed today with 133 people on board, state television CCTV reported.
Flight MU5735, which had taken off at 1:15 p.m. local time (5:15 GMT), crashed to the ground in the Guangxi region, sIn that for the moment more details are known or if there are survivors.
At first, state television CCTV reported that there were 133 people on board flight MU5735, which took off at 1:15 p.m. local time (05:15 GMT) before crashing to the ground in the Guangxi region (south). without knowing more details at the moment or if there are survivors.
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There is also no information on what caused the accident: “The precise nature of the incident remains undetermined,” CCTV reported without giving further details.
The last air tragedy reported by Chinese aviation was on August 24, 2010, when a Henan Airlines flight se crashed in the city of Yichun, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, killing 44 people.
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However, in 2016 five people died in another accident in Shanghaii (east), that of a Joyair seaplane that was making its inaugural flight with ten people on board.
The official Global Times newspaper was quick to recall that, as of February, China had exceeded 100 million safe flight hours, the best mark in the country’s history.
The rescue underway
Rescue teams sent from different parts of southern China went to the site to start -once the fire was extinguished- the search work, although with little prospect of finding survivors, given the height from which the device fell to the ground, according to images broadcast on social networks.
The information available at the moment indicates that sand more than 650 troops have been deployed in the area –in the Teng county of the town of Wuzhou, in Guangxi – as well as 23 fire trucks.
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The rescue teamsThey managed to put out the fire around 5:00 p.m. local time, according to the state network.
After the event, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he was “shocked”“, and the Council of State (Executive) formed a committee to investigate both the causes of the accident “as soon as possible” and other possible safety problems in the civil aviation sector with the aim of “ensuring the absolute safety of operations aircraft”.
The flight had an expected duration of one hour and forty minutes, in which the device, almost seven years oldhad to travel the 1,357 kilometers that separate Kunming from Canton.
According to data from the FlightRadar24 flight tracking portal, the aircraft was flying at 2:19 p.m. local time (06:19 GMT) at an altitude of 29,100 feet (8,870 meters) when, about 55 kilometers west of the town of Wuzhou, it began to descend.
The last point of contact of the flight, according to the aforementioned portal, was about 25 kilometers southwest of Wuzhou, at an altitude of 3,225 feet (989 meters), at 2:22 p.m. local time (06:22 GMT), which would mean that in just three minutes the apparatus descended almost 8,000 meters.
EFE
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