New Delhi: A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people – 123 passengers and nine crew members – on board crashed in the country’s southern province of Guangxi on Monday.
Reuters quoted People’s Daily – China’s largest newspaper group – quoting a provincial firefighter as saying there were ‘no signs of survivors’.
The plane was flying from the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong. There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.
‘Can confirm the plane has crashed,’ China Eastern Airlines said in a statement in which it also gave details of a hotline for relatives of those on board.
The China Eastern passenger plane that crashed into the mountains today with 132 people on board is seen diving straight into the ground in terrifying footage captured by a security camera. The video was caught by a local mining company’s security camera, according to reports.