Search and rescue operations at the crash site of a passenger Boeing 737 in southern China have been suspended, the report said. message China Central Television on Wednesday, March 23.
Rescuers at the scene analyzed the situation and came to the conclusion that landslides could occur due to the rains that began on Wednesday morning. Work at the crash site of the airliner has been temporarily suspended. Before their resumption, drainage will be carried out.
As of Tuesday evening, March 22, no survivors or dead bodies have been found. It was also not possible to find the black boxes of the aircraft, the damage of which is so great that it is still difficult to talk about the cause of the accident.
The search for passengers continues, but the mountainous terrain complicates the situation. Rescuers were able to find only a few burnt things in the surveyed area – documents and wallets.
A passenger Boeing 737 of China Eastern Airlines, carrying 132 people (123 passengers and nine crew members), crashed on March 21 in Teng County, Wuzhou City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. The plane was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Xi Jinping in connection with the crash of a passenger plane.
China Eastern Airlines reported that there were no foreign passengers among the 132 people on board the Boeing 737. A video of the moment of the crash also appeared on the Web. The footage shows how rapidly the plane falls, followed by a smoke plume.
One of the possible causes of the disaster is called engine failure. It was also noted that the age of the aircraft operating the flight was almost seven years old; it made its first flight on June 6, 2015. The airline has suspended flights of all its Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
This state of emergency was the worst air crash in China in 12 years. In 2010, an Embraer 190 flying from Harbin to Yichun overshot the runway in foggy conditions and fell to the ground, after which its hull split into two parts and caught fire. A total of 96 people were on the plane, 44 of them were killed and 52 were injured.
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