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China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed near Wuzhou Airport China

The Guangxi Emergency Management Department has confirmed that China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration B-1791, operating flight #MU5735 flying from Kunming to Guanghzou has crashed. Chinese Media CCTV has reported that the crashed in a mountain with 133 onboard near Wuzhou airport. Emergency Teams are currently searching the area for any survivers.

Several videos on Twitter shows a large mountain fire in the vicinity of the crash site.

According to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, the last couple of ADS-B readouts shows vertical speed in excess of 25.000ft/min with the last one showing 30.976ft/min.

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Source: Flightradar24

The aircraft was delivered to China Eastern Airlines in June 2015 and was painted in “Yunnan Peacock (orange)” special colours.

China Eastern Airlines Boeing-737-89P(wl). Photo: Suparat Chairatprasert via planespotters.net
China Eastern Airlines Boeing-737-89P(wl). Photo: Suparat Chairatprasert via planespotters.net

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