The China Eastern Airline plane that crashed in the country’s Guangxi province on Monday was carrying 132 people – 123 passengers and nine crew members. The plane – a Boeing 737 -went down in flames over mountains in southern China while on a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou – a distance of around 1,340 km and a flying time of approximately two hours.
The number of casualties is unknown at this time.State broadcaster CCTV said China’s aviation body, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, has rushed emergency search-and-rescue teams to the crash site.Media cited a rescue official as saying the plane had disintegrated. A fire sparked by the crash destroyed bamboo and trees before being put out.
