Another Boeing Disaster, 132 Dead in China Eastern Airlines Plane Crash
Posted on 03/22/2022
China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited, also known as China Eastern, is an airline headquartered in the China Eastern Airlines Building, on the grounds of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Changning District, Shanghai.
There are no survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash. This is China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade.
China Eastern Airlines plane, via its Boeing 737-800 was carrying 132 people. The plane crashed Monday afternoon in a remote, mountainous region in the south of the country as it flew from Kunming to Guangzhou. The aircraft had passed pre-flight checks and the nine crew members were qualified and healthy, according to an airlines spokesperson.
“The flight took off from Kunming at 1:16 p.m. and was flying normally. At around 2:21 p.m., it arrived over Wuzhou city of Guangxi province. The ground station noticed that the plane had a sudden altitude change, and then it lost communication with the plane, before the plane eventually crashed,” said Sun Shiying, a representative for China Eastern Airlines.
The last major Chinese airline disaster was in 2010. The 2010 Henan Airlines disaster killed 44 of the 96 people on board.
