GUANGZHOU — A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737\u002D800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a…
The airline said it deeply mourned the passengers and crew, without specifying how many people had been killed. Boeing said it was ready to assist China Eastern and was in contact with U.S. transportation safety regulators over the incident.
The airline said it had provided a hotline for relatives of those on board and sent a working group to the site. There were no foreigners on the flight, Chinese state television reported, citing China Eastern. The aircraft, with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, China’s Civil Aviation Administration of China and the airline said.
State media showed a piece of the plane on a scarred, earthen hillside. There was no sign of a fire or personal belongings.Crashes during the cruise phase of flights are relatively rare, even though this period accounts for the majority of flight time. President Xi Jinping called for investigators to determine the cause of the crash as soon as possible, state broadcaster CCTV reported.“Boeing is in contact with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and our technical experts are prepared to assist with the investigation led by the Civil Aviation Administration of China,” the company said.
The 737-800 has a good safety record and is the predecessor to the 737 MAX model that has been grounded in China for more than three years after fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.“The CAAC has very rigid safety regulations and we will just need to wait for more details,” said Shukor Yusof, head of Malaysia-based aviation consultancy Endau Analytics. Investigators will search for the plane’s black boxes – the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder – to shed light on the crash.
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