A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800, carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew, has crashed in Guangxi in Southern China.
The six-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft, registered B-1791, was operating Flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou suddenly lost altitude at approximately 3:30pm local time; subsequently crashing into a hill. Social media posts show aircraft wreckage strewn across farmland, as well as a burnt-out forest where the plane crashed.
Update 02:00 UTC (22/03/2022)
Chinese state media confirmed no survivors have been found.
Recovery efforts are continuing, after the aircraft rapidly descended from a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.
Update 15:00 UTC
China Eastern Airlines has grounded all Boeing 737-800 passenger jets following the crash of flight MU5735.
Update 10:55 UTC
Chinese aviation authorities have confirmed the incident, confirming the final number of occupants aboard the aircraft, and that it lost contact with air traffic control close to its crash location, triggering immediate rescue efforts.
China Eastern Airlines has since turned their entire website black-and-white, and also confirmed the horrific news.
Earlier Updates
Flight MU5735 was flying a domestic route from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, and it reportedly crashed approximately halfway through the flight, near Tengxian, Guangxi.
Chinese state media earlier issued a statement, saying “a rescue team has assembled and is approaching. The situation with casualties remains unclear.” However, it is not clear if rescue crews have actually made it to the crash site in difficult mountainous terrain.
China’s last fatal commercial jet accident occurred in 2010, with 44 killed after an Embraer E-190 crashed on approach to Yichun.
We will continue to update here as more news emerges
If the altitude / airspeed graph and video are correct, this could be an inflight detachment of critical flight component or sudden irreversible flight control eg at the tail causing a nose down. It seems to suddenly enter a direct downward trajectory. with apparently no communication from the crew. The wreckage seems contained so it looks like a nose down high speed impact.
If this is real, it is a tragedy. However, the footage of the plane “crashing” show a video of someone conveniently zooming perfectly to where the plane was going straight down. Also, when the “plane” entered the frame, the color was considerably more brilliant than the surrounding skyline and trees. Also, when “the plane” reached the sight line of the trees, it seemed to go into slow motion.
I wonder if the FAA has gotten unedited footage of the radar. Also, the wreckage seems staged and way to sparse to be an entire plane.
Just my two cents. Keep the change.
@Bob…132 people sadly die (and I emphasise people regardless of what part of the world they are from), and all your concerned about ensuring Boeing’s reputation remains in tact and throwing uneducated, unsubstantiated and nonsense criticisms at those from people from a certain aspect of the world. In one comment you have shown how truly disgusting you are.
RIP to those who have passed in this sad incident, and I hope the investigation reveals the truth to enable the family’s and loved find some element of peace.
Yeah, I’m not saying I’m right but I’ve never seen a plane do a vertical nose dive (besides the max) to where it was a mechanical fault. If it was a mechanical fault it would be on the airline and poor maintenance. Most likely I see it as pilot suicide or pilot error
RIP to all who flew within and condolences to their families.
New caption for me :” If it’s Boeing , I’m not going “.
R.I.P 😥