A Boeing 737 passenger plane operated by China Eastern Airlines crashed in mountainous Teng county in the southern Guangxi province on Monday.
On board were 133 people
who had left
the city of Kunming, in southwestern China, in the direction of Guangzhou.
Flight MU5735 took off at 1:15 p.m. local time (5:15 GMT).
Chinese televisions have broadcast some images of a fire on the hillside where the accident took place.
The rescue teams are close to the place, which is on fire, although
no further details are known at the moment or if there are any survivors
.
The accident could become one of China's worst air disasters.
During the last decades, accompanying the growth in all sectors of the country, in the aviation sector a fleet of new and safe planes has been introduced, as well as
stricter air controls after the succession of fatal accidents in the 1990s. 90's.
A passenger plane was hijacked and crashed into two other planes on landing in Guangzhou in October 1990.
128 people were killed.
Two years later, a Russian Yak-42 plane crashed on takeoff from Nanjing in eastern China, killing 106 people.
That same year, 131 passengers died after crashing a Boeing 737 flying from Guangzhou to the tourist city of Guilin.
The last plane crash in the Asian country was on August 24, 2010. A plane chartered by Henan Airlines crashed in the city of Yichun.
44 of the 96 people on board died.
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