China Eastern Plane Carrying More Than 130 People Crashes – The Wall Street Journal.


China Eastern Plane Carrying More Than 130 People Crashes https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-eastern-airlines-plane-crashes-in-guangxi-province-11647852654

By Yoko Kubota +, Benjamin Katz + and Wenxin Fan 
BEIJING—A Boeing Co. 737 passenger plane operated by China Eastern Airlines carrying 132 people dropped from the sky and slammed into the mountains of southern China, according to officials and flight-tracking data.
China Eastern Flight 5735 crashed in the Guangxi region as it was flying from the southwestern city of Kunming to the southern metropolis of Guangzhou on Monday afternoon, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement online.
Rescue teams have been sent to the area, according to state media reports. The aircraft was a 737-800 and not a Boeing 737 MAX, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
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