A Chinese passenger plane with 132 people𝕴 on board crashed in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, the regional emergency management department said.
The Boeing 737 aircraft of China Eastern Airlines, which flew from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou, causing a mountain fire, the department was quoted as saying by the state𓆏-run Xinhua news agency.
The 132 people included 123 passengers and nine crew members, the Civil Aviꦉation Administrationꦗ of China said on its website.
The number of casualties is not clea𒅌r yet, the repo💟rt said.
𒆙Rescuers have been assembled and are approaching the site.
According to news portal The Paper, a staff member at Guangzhou’s Baiyun In🦩ternational Airport said that flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou has not arrived at its destined time, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
The domestic flight was scheduled to take off from Kunminಌg at 1.10 pm (local time) and arrive at G💧uangzhou at 2.52 pm (local time) and is now marked “out of reach” on Baiyun airport’s app.
Followin🅰g the accident, videos and pictures purporting to come from the scene started circulating on social media showing smoke billowing from a hillside and wreckage on the ground.
China Eastern is one of Chinaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ's three major air carriers.
China’s airlines had ꦉrecorded over 100 million continuous hours of safe flight as of February 19, according to Zhu Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration, the Post reported.
The last domestic fatal incident was in 2010, when a plane crashed in Yichun, Heilongjiang province, killing 42 people🔯.(With PTI inputs)
