Plane crash in Guangxi

A smartphone picture of the crash site on Monday afternoon

Cause of crash unknown: A China Eastern airline Boeing crashed into a mountainous forest in Guangxi. Rescue teams have only found debris. The crash was unusually sudden: The plane dropped at full speed from the sky and hit the ground almost vertically.

A plane crash in southern China has killed 132 people. Flight MU5735 was en route from Baoshan near the border to Vietnam in Yunnan via the provincial capital Kunming to Guangzhou. Details on the cause of the crash have not yet been released at this time.

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