{"id":477398,"date":"2022-03-22T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477398"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:40:05","slug":"chinese-eastern-airline-plane-crash-a-look-at-chinas-past-air-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-eastern-airline-plane-crash-a-look-at-chinas-past-air-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Eastern Airline plane crash: A look at China&#8217;s past air accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Eastern Airlines plane &#8211; a Boeing-737 &#8211; carrying 132 people, including nine crew members crashed in the country&#8217;s southwestern province of Guangxi on Monday. Visuals of the crash circulated on social media showing a big fire on a mountain side. There is no immediate information on casualties and emergency teams have rushed to the spot.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s airline industry safety record has been among the world&#8217;s best over the past decade. China Eastern is one of the country&#8217;s three major air carriers.<\/p>\n<p>According to flight tracking service FlightRadar24, China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou. China&#8217;s aviation regulatory body said that contact with the aircraft was lost over Wuzhou city. FlightRadar24 data showed the flight departed the southwestern city of Kunming at 1.11 pm (10.41 am IST), and the tracking stopped at 2.22 pm (11.52 am IST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Eastern Airlines plane &#8211; a Boeing-737 &#8211; carrying 132 people, including nine crew members crashed in the country&#8217;s southwestern province of Guangxi on Monday. Visuals of the crash circulated on social media showing a big fire on a mountain side. There is no immediate information on casualties and emergency teams have rushed to the spot. China&#8217;s airline industry safety record has been among the world&#8217;s best over the past decade. China Eastern is one of the country&#8217;s three major air carriers. According to flight tracking service FlightRadar24, China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou. China&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}