IN CHINA, A PLANE CARRYING 132 PEOPLE CRASHES AND CAUSES A MOUNTAIN FIRE

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Beijing: A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed in southern China on Monday, according to aviation officials, causing a fire on a mountain and unknown casualties, according to state media.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) claimed in an online notification that a Boeing 737 flight from Kunming to Guangzhou's southern hub "lost airborne communication above Wuzhou" city in the Guangxi area.

The CAAC said it had triggered its emergency reaction and "dispatched a working group to the scene" since "it has been established that this flight has crashed."

According to the CAAC, the jet was carrying 123 passengers and 9 flight crew members.

According to a previous claim in the state media, there were 133 persons on board.

According to the provincial emergency management agency and state media CCTV, the plane crashed in Teng county near Wuzhou and "started a mountain fire."

Rescue services were called to the location, according to the report.

One villager informed a local news outlet that the jet involved in the incident had "totally disintegrated," and that he had observed neighbouring forest areas burnt by a fire started when the plane fell into the slope.

On Monday afternoon, local media reported that China Eastern flight MU5735 had not arrived in Guangzhou as anticipated after taking off from Kunming shortly after 1:00 p.m., raising fears for the plane's fate (0500 GMT).

When approached by AFP, China Eastern did not respond immediately. On Monday afternoon, the airline altered the colour scheme of its website to black and white.

"The specific location of the accident was Langnan township in Teng county," a local official told AFP.

After 2:22 p.m. local time, when flight MU5735 arrived in Wuzhou, flight tracker FlightRadar24 showed no more data for it. It showed that the plane descended from 29,100 feet to 3,225 feet in three minutes before flight data was lost.

In a country crisscrossed by newly built airports and serviced by new airlines developed to match the country's fast growth over the last three decades, China had an exceptional air safety record in recent years.

In 2010, a Henan Airlines flight crashed in Heilongjiang province in northern China, killing at least 42 of the 92 persons on board, however the full toll was never confirmed.

It was the last time a Chinese commercial passenger plane crashed, killing civilians. A China Northwest Airlines crash in 1994 was the deadliest Chinese commercial flight crash, killing all 160 people on board.

The majority of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished en way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014, were Chinese.

 

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