Investigators are probing what caused a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane to inexplicably fall from the sky on Monday, presumably killing everyone on board.
A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi, according to officials said. There was no immediate word on numbers of dead and injured. The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members. The flight was traveling from Kunming in the western province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast.Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards.
The crash site is surrounded on three sides by mountains and accessible only by foot and motorcycle on a steep dirt road in the semitropical Guangxi region, famed for some of China’s most spectacular scenery. Police restricted access, checking each vehicle entering Molang, a village near the crash site. Five people with swollen eyes walked out of the village, got into a car and left. Onlookers said they were relatives of the passengers.
Workers in hazmat suits set up a registration desk and administered COVID-19 tests at the entrance to one hotel, outside of Molang. A sign read, "The hotel is requisitioned for March 21 plane accident emergency use." At another hotel, a group of women, some wearing vests with Red Cross markings, registered at a hotel desk set up outside.
The plane was about an hour into its flight, at an altitude of 29,000 feet , when it entered a steep, fast dive around 2:20 p.m., according to data from FlightRadar24.com. The plane plunged to 7,400 feet before briefly regaining about 1,200 feet in altitude, then dove again. The plane stopped transmitting data 96 seconds after starting to dive.
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