A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 crashed yesterday in southern China’s Guangxi province with 132 people on board, in China’s worst recorded civil air disaster since 2010.
The plane, which was traveling between the cities of Kunming (southwest) and Canton (southeast) crashed with 123 passengers and 9 crew members on board, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) collected in a statement published several times. hours after the accident.
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, before crashing to the ground in the Guangxi region (south) without, until closing of this edition, more details are known or if there are survivors.
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 crashed in the city of Yichun in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, killing 44 people. However, in 2016 five people died in another accident in Shanghai (east), that of a Joyair company seaplane that was making its inaugural flight with ten people on board.
the official newspaper Global Times He was quick to recall that, as of February, China had exceeded 100 million safe flight hours, the best mark in the country’s history.
Rescue teams sent from different parts of southern China went to the site to start –once the fire was extinguished– the search efforts, although with little prospect of finding survivors, given the height from which the device fell to the ground, according to images spread on social networks.
After the event, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he felt “shocked.”
Following the incident, China Eastern shares in New York suffered sharply, as did shares in the Boeing company.
EFE
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