A China Eastern Boeing 737 with 132 onboard was hit by an accident and caused a mountain fire in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The plane, MU 5735, took off from Kunming Changshui airport in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province at 13:15 p.m and was scheduled to arrive at Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province at 15:07 p.m.
As of the time of filing this report, rescue teams have been deployed and are approaching the crash site, the number of casualties is not clear yet and the cause of the crash is still under investigations.
The aircraft involved is a Boeing 737-800, belonging to the Yunnan subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines and has been in operation for just over six and a half years. The plane was delivered in June of 2015.
The aircraft has a total of 162 seats, including 12 business class seats and 150 economy class seats.
As of February 2022, the continuous safe flight time of China’s civil aviation transport aviation had exceeded 100 million hours, representing the best safety performance in the history of China’s civil aviation industry and the best continuous safe flight record in the history of civil aviation worldwide.
Shares of China Eastern Airlines plummeted more than 10 percent in US trading premarket.
Meanwhile, the American multinational company, Boeing, has suffered some losses including when it’s Boeing 737-Max was grounded for 2 years (2019-2021) after major crashes in indonesia and Ethopia.
