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China plane crash survivors missing

Plane wreckage found but no survivors, China Central Television reported about 18 hours after the crash.

Hundreds of firefighters and rescuers joined the search for survivors.

There were 132 people on board the crashed Boeing 737.

On Monday, a Chinese passenger plane Boeing 737-800 of China Eastern Airlines, flying from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in the mountains in southern China. The aircraft has been operated by a Chinese company since 2015, according to the Flight website. radar tracking 24. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic controllers while flying over the city of Wuzhou, there were 132 people on board – 123 passengers and 9 crew members.

The Chinese aviation industry has been one of the safest in the world over the past decade, according to Reuters. The last fatal air crash in China occurred in 2010, when 44 of the 96 people on board died after a Hanna Airlines Embraer E-190 crashed near the airport near Yichun due to poor visibility. In 1992, a Boeing 737-300 from China’s Southern Airlines flying from Guangzhou to Guilin crashed on landing. All 141 people on board were killed.

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