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TR-AGIC: How Jet Carrying 132 People Crashed In China | WATCH VIDEO

Faith Ukanwa

Mar 21, 2022

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TR-AGIC: How Jet Carrying 132 People Crashed In China | WATCH VIDEO
A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people has crashed in South-West China with casualties unknown, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday.

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The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and "caused a mountain fireÔÇØ, CCTV said, citing the provincial emergency management bureau.

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The report added that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene.

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CCTV said a "China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 132 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi, and caused a mountain fireÔÇØ.

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Local media reported that China Eastern flight MU5735 had not arrived at its scheduled destination in Guangzhou after it took off from the city of Kunming shortly after 1:00 pm (0500 GMT) Monday, citing airport staff.

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One villager told a local news site that the plane involved in the crash had "completely fallen apartÔÇØ and he had seen nearby forest areas destroyed by a fire caused when the plane crashed onto the mountainside.

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"The exact location of the accident was Langnan township in Teng county,ÔÇØ a local official told AFP, without giving further details.

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Flight tracker FlightRadar24 showed no more data for flight MU5735 after 2:22 pm local time, when it had reached Wuzhou. It showed that the plane had sharply dropped from an altitude of 29,100 feet to 3,225 feet in the span of three minutes, before flight information stopped.

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China had enjoyed an enviable air safety record in recent years in a country criss-crossed by newly built airports and serviced by new airlines established to match the country's breakneck growth over the last few decades.

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A Henan Airlines flight crashed in North-Eastern Heilongjiang province in 2010, killing at least 42 out of 92 people on board although the final toll was never confirmed.

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It was the last Chinese commercial passenger flight crash that caused civilian casualties. The deadliest Chinese commercials flight crash was a China North-West Airlines crash in 1994 which killed all 160 onboard.

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Most of the passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, were from China.

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