Chinese Eastern aircraft carrying 132 crashes in Guangxi province

A Chinese Eastern Airlines passenger plane carrying 132 people crashed in southern China, CCTV broadcasters reported.

There is no information about the fatalities in the incident that occurred on Monday afternoon.

The Boeing 737 crashed in the countryside near the town of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. It “caused a volcano”, CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were sent to the scene.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday ordered an investigation into the cause of the accident, state media reported. We were surprised to learn of the MU5735 East China accident, “the CCTV broadcaster Xi said, while he also called for “all efforts” towards rescue and to look for “cause of the accident as soon as possible”.

Local media reported that flight MU5735 had not arrived at a scheduled destination in Guangzhou after taking off from the city of Kunming shortly after 1 noon (05:00 GMT), quoting airport staff. Flight tracking ends at 14:22 (06:22 GMT) at an altitude of 3,225 feet (983 meters) and a speed of 376 knots (696km/jam). The plane is scheduled to land at 15:05 (07:05 GMT). Katrina Yu from Al Jazeera said it was the biggest aviation incident experienced by China for years. “China’s civil aviation authority says there are 132 people in it, including its crew,” Katrina said, speaking from Beijing. “It looks like there is a forest fire caused by a plane that crashed [in Quangxi], and you can feel how remote this area is,” he continued.

Because of how difficult this field is, you can see that it won’t be easy to get a rescue team there very quickly China Eastern’s safety record is one of China’s three major airlines, which operates a number of domestic and international routes serving 248 destinations. The country’s aviation industry safety record is among the best in the world over the past decade. The Boeing 737 has a twin engine, a single aisle is one of the most popular aircraft in the world for short and medium range flights. Version 737 Max is prohibited from flying around the world after two fatal accidents.

Chinese aviation regulators allowed the aircraft to resume operations late last year, making the country the last major market to do so. According to the Aviation Safety Network, China’s last fatal jet accident occurred in 2010, when 44 of the 96 people inside were killed when the Embraer E-190 regional jet flown by Henan Airlines crashed as it approached Yichun airport in low visibility.