{"id":1364,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/no-survivors-found-among-132-people-in-china-plane-crash-chinese-state-media-says-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:45","slug":"no-survivors-found-among-132-people-in-china-plane-crash-chinese-state-media-says-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/no-survivors-found-among-132-people-in-china-plane-crash-chinese-state-media-says-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"No survivors found among 132 people in China plane crash, Chinese state media says – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 18\u00a0hours after a Chinese airliner carrying 132 people crashed into a mountainous area in the\u00a0southern province of Guangxi, no survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday, Chinese state media reported.
The Boeing 737-800, operated by China Eastern Airlines, crashed Monday<\/strong> afternoonwith\u00a0123 passengers and nine crew members on board,\u00a0according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
\u201cWreckage of the plane was found at the scene, but up until now, none of those aboard the plane with whom contact was lost have been found,” state broadcaster CCTV said Tuesday morning.
The plane crash is China’s worst air disaster in a decade.
The crash sparked a large fire, big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images, that was later extinguished.\u00a0State media reported<\/a> late Monday that forecast rain and the mountainous terrain at the crash site might complicate search efforts. Only debris from\u00a0the wreckage had been found, according to rescuers who spoke to state-run\u00a0Xinhua News Agency<\/a>.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for an “all-out effort” in the rescue operations and for any potential safety hazards to be investigated.
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The crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county. According to\u00a0aviation officials, the plane\u00a0was traveling\u00a0from Kunming in the western province of Yunnan to Guangzhou in the coastal province of Guangdong.\u00a0The flight took off at 1:11 p.m. local time and was scheduled to arrive at 3:05 p.m., but air traffic controllers lost track of the plane around 2:15 p.m., according to China Daily.
Data from the\u00a0flight-tracking website Flightradar24.com shows the China Eastern Airlines flight traveling at about 30,000 feet before it suddenly dropped.\u00a0The airplane was traveling at its cruising altitude speed of\u00a0523 mph, according to the data.
Hundreds of firefighters and rescue crews from nearby departments were dispatched to the scene, according to the state-run China Daily<\/a>. Video shared by People’s Daily, another state media source, showed smoke billowing from the side of a mountain<\/a>.
The U.S.\u00a0National Transportation Safety Board said<\/a> it had appointed an American senior air safety investigator as a U.S. accredited representative to the investigation.
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China Daily<\/a>\u00a0reported that a village official with the\u00a0surname Zhou\u00a0told the\u00a0Chutian Metropolis Daily newspaper that the plane had “completely disintegrated” and that he did not see any remains.
The New York Times reported<\/a>, citing the state-owned China News Service, that a resident from the village of\u00a0Molang with the last name\u00a0Liu rode to the crash site to help with rescue efforts but did not see any remains.
“Everyone went to the mountains,” Tang Min, who operates a\u00a0restaurant near the\u00a0site, told the Agence France-Presse news agency<\/a>.
Photos at the airport in Guangzhou, where the plane was to arrive, showed a section set aside for relatives of the people aboard the flight. China Daily reported the airline set up special working groups in its response to the crash, including one dedicated to family assistance.
China, along with\u00a0North America and Europe, is one of the world’s top three air travel markets.\u00a0China Eastern, based in\u00a0Shanghai,\u00a0is one of the country’s top airlines, serving 248 destinations domestically and internationally.\u00a0\u00a0
“The cause of the plane crash is still under investigation, and the company will actively cooperate with relevant investigations,”\u00a0the airline said in a statement Monday, according to The New York Times<\/a>. “The company expresses its deep condolences to the passengers and crew members who died in the plane crash.”
Boeing said in a statement it was aware of the reports of the crash and “working to gather more information.” The company’s\u00a0shares fell more than 4% in afternoon trading in New York.
In an email to employees sent Monday afternoon, Boeing CEO David Calhoun said the company\u00a0has been in communication with customer and regulatory authorities since the accident, and offered the support of technical experts to the investigation led by Chinese authorities.
“We are deeply saddened by the news of the accident involving a China Eastern Airlines 737-800 airplane. The thoughts of all of us at Boeing are with the passengers and crew members on Flight MU 5735, as well as their families and loved ones,” Calhoun said in a statement.
The Boeing\u00a0737-800 was delivered to China Eastern Airlines in\u00a0June 2015 and has flown for more than six years. The aircraft debuted in the 1990s, and Boeing has made more than 5,200 of the commercial planes. The company\u00a0delivered the last of the series to China Eastern in 2020.
State media reported that all of China Eastern’s fleet of 737-800s were ordered grounded.\u00a0China has more 737-800s than any other country \u2013\u00a0nearly 1,200 of the planes, and if other Chinese airlines ground the plane, it \u201ccould have a significant impact on domestic travel,\u201d said aviation consultant IBA.
In January 2020, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard accidentally shot down a type of\u00a0737-800 flown by Ukraine International Airlines. All 176 people on board were killed.
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The aircraft is different from the\u00a0737 Max model, which was grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in recent years. China\u00a0cleared that model of plane to return to service, pending modifications to the aircraft, the South China Morning Post reported<\/a>. The 737 Max has not flown in China in three years.
China’s most recent previous fatal civilian airline accident occurred in 2010 when a\u00a0Henan Airlines flight crashed while landing in fog in\u00a0Yichun in Heilongjiang province. Forty-four of the 96 people aboard were killed, and the pilot was sentenced to three years in prison.
In 2004, a China Eastern flight from\u00a0Baotou in Inner Mongolia crashed into a lake shortly after takeoff, killing 55 people.
The U.S.\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Monday it was aware of the reports of the crash. “The agency is ready to assist in investigation efforts if asked,” the FAA said.
Contributing: Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY; The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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More than 18\u00a0hours after a Chinese airliner carrying 132 people crashed into a mountainous area in the\u00a0southern province of Guangxi, no survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday, Chinese state media reported.The Boeing 737-800, operated by China Eastern Airlines, crashed Monday afternoonwith\u00a0123 passengers and nine crew members on board,\u00a0according to the Civil Aviation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}