On Monday, a China Eastern Airlines Boeing-737 crashed in southern China with 132 people on board.
No survivors have been found and the search continues to find the black boxes of the device.
The sudden fall of the plane is "very unusual" and raises questions about the reasons for the accident.
On Monday, a Boeing-737 crashed in a mountainous area in the south of the country with 132 people on board.
The plane fell near the city of Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region (east of Hong Kong) and "caused a fire" in the mountains, said Chinese television CCTV.
The device provided the connection between the major Chinese cities of Kunming (southwest) and Canton (south).
According to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the passengers are a priori all Chinese.
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returns to this aerial drama, the circumstances of which have not yet been clarified.
What assessment?
“So far, the rescue operations have not found any survivors,” Zhu Tao, director of aviation safety at the China Civil Aircraft Administration (CAAC), told reporters on Tuesday evening. .
It is unfortunately likely that all the occupants of the aircraft perished, ie 132 people including 9 crew members.
The bodies and personal effects of the passengers were probably "entirely burned" by the explosion of the aircraft on the ground, followed by a fire, told AFP a rescuer who spent the night on the site.
Why does this accident raise questions?
According to the specialized site FlightRadar24, the device lost in just one minute nearly 21,250 feet (6,477 m).
After a brief ascent, it dived again, 4,625 feet (1,410 m), according to the plotter, to be 3,225 feet (983 m) from the ground.
There is no data for the next flight.
Jean-Paul Troadec, former director of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Air Safety in France, said the data from the flight was "very unusual".
The black boxes have not yet been located, however the authorities considered it premature to comment on the causes of the brutal fall of the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735.
What precedents?
Plane accidents are relatively rare in China, a country where air traffic has grown significantly in recent decades and safety measures are generally strict.
The last major accident in the country dates back to August 2010: a flight from the Chinese company Henan Airlines then crashed in the northeast of the country and killed around 40 people.
The heaviest toll for a commercial flight dates back to 1994. A China Northwest Airlines Tupolev 154 crashed shortly after takeoff from Xi'an (north), killing all 160 people on board.
Many Chinese passengers also perished in March 2014 during the enigmatic disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, bound for Beijing.
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