China Plane Crash: Boeing 737 plane Crashed into mountains, 132 passengers were on board [TKB WORLD]

China’s Boeing 737 aircraft has crashed. A total of 132 passengers were on board the Boeing 737 at the time of the accident. Civil Aviation of China has confirmed the accident. It has been told that 123 passengers and 9 crew members were on board. The information about how many people survived, or how many died in the accident has not been revealed at the moment. The plane that crashed belongs to China Eastern Airlines of China.

According to news agency Reuters, China’s Boeing 737 was going from Kunming to Guangzhou. This accident happened in Guangxi region. Flames of fire were also visible in the mountains there.

The MU 5735 plane took off at 1.15 am from Changshui Airport in Kunming City in Yunnan Province, southwest China. It was supposed to reach Guangzhou in Guangdong province by 3 o’clock, but the accident happened before that.

According to the news agency Xinhua, rescue teams rapidly going to the place where the plane crashed. The plane was only six and a half years old. It was taken over by the airlines in June 2015. MU 5735 had a total of 162 seats, of which 12 were business class and 150 were economy class. The Boeing 737 is considered a good aircraft for short and medium distance air travel. At the same time, China Eastern is one of the three main airlines companies of China.

According to the Aviation Safety Network, the last time such a major accident happened in China was in 2010. When the Embraer E-190 crashed. There were 96 people on board, out of which 44 died. The accident happened due to low visibility, it was told.