An airliner with 133 passengers on board has crashed in China.
State television is reporting the Boeing 737 crashed into a mountain causing a fire.
The China Eastern Airlines plane was travelling on an internal domestic route from Kunming city to Guangzhou when it came down.
We are following multiple unconfirmed reports about a possible accident involving China Eastern Airlines flight #MU5735 a Boeing 737-89P (B-1791) en route from Kunming to Guanghzou, China. pic.twitter.com/d8MhU7mZPv
— Aviation Safety Network (ASN) (@AviationSafety) March 21, 2022
Rescue workers close to the crash site say there is no confirmation yet of casualties.
China's most recent fatal jet plane accident was twelve years ago when an Embraer E-190 crashed on approach to Yichun airport, killing 44 of the 96 people on board.
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