132 killed in China plane crash
A Chinese passenger aircraft with 132 people on board crashed in a mountainous area of southern China on Monday, killing all passengers and crew.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Kunming in southwest China to southern China’s Guangzhou city descended in freefall before crashing in the Guangxi autonomous region on Monday afternoon, igniting a forest fire, state media reports said. The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine-member crew.
China Eastern, one of China’s three major carriers, said the cause of the crash, just before which the aircraft descended at a final rate of 31,000 feet a minute according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, was under investigation.
