No Survivors Found In Crash Of Chinese Plane Carrying 132 People
Mumbai: No survivors have been found as the search continued of the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed on Monday. The China Eastern plane crashed a day earlier in a forested mountainous area in China’s worst air disaster in a decade.
“Wreckage of the plane was found at the scene, but up until now, none of those aboard the plane with whom contact was lost has been found,” said state broadcaster CCTV.
The Boeing 737-800 crashed near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region while flying from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial centre of Guangzhou along the east coast. It ignited a fire large enough to be seen on NASA satellite images.
The accident left a deep crater in the hill, Xinhua news agency quoted rescue workers as saying. The report said drones and manual searches will be used to locate the black box, which contains flight data and cockpit voice recorders are essential to investigate the accident.
China Eastern Flight 5735 was travelling at 455 knots (523 mph; 842 kph) at about 29,000 feet when it made a sharp and sharp dive at 2:20 a.m. local time, according to data from the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.com.
The plane plunged to 7,400 feet before briefly regaining about 1,200 feet in altitude, then dove again. The plane stopped transmitting data 96 seconds after starting to fall.
The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said. It was about an hour into the flight and nearing the point at which it would begin descending into Guangzhou when it pitched downward.
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