China: a Boeing-737 with 133 people on board crashes in the southwest of the country
A China Eastern Airlines airliner with 133 passengers on board crashed on March 21, 2022 in the mountains of southern China.
(Illustrative photo).
AP - Ng Han Guan
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A China Eastern Airline plane crashed on Monday March 21 in southwest China.
It was public television that announced it.
There is no human toll yet, but 133 people were on board this Boeing-737.
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The Boeing-737 crashed near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region.
the CCTV television channel added that the accident had "caused a fire" in a mountain and that rescue teams were on their way to the scene of the disaster.
According to local media, first information collected by local media, flight MU5735 took off shortly after 1:00 p.m. local time (5:00 a.m. UT) from the metropolis of Kunming (Southwest).
Its destination was Canton, some 1,300 km away, and 133 people were on board.
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