For the moment, the Chinese media do not give any assessment of the accident. A China Eastern Airlines plane with 133 people on board crashed in southwest China on Monday, state television reported.
A fire caused by the accident
The Boeing-737, crashed near the city of Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region, and “caused a fire” in the mountains, CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were sent to the scene.
According to local media, China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 took off shortly after 1 p.m. local time (6 a.m. Paris time) from the metropolis of Kunming (southwest). His destination was Canton, some 1,300 km away.
No comment was immediately available from China Eastern contacted by AFP. The last major air accident in China dates back to August 2010. It killed 42 people.