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China Eastern Airlines Boeing jet with 133 people on board crashes in China

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China Eastern Airlines passenger jet has 'accident' in Guangxi, state media says

The jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft and the number of casualties was not immediately known, CCTV said. Rescue was on its way, it said.

There was no word on the cause of the crash of the plane, a 6-year-old 737-800 aircraft, according to Flightradar24. The China Eastern flight from Kunming to Guangzhou departed at 1.11pm local time , FlightRadar24 data showed. The flight tracking ended at 2.22pm at an altitude of 3225 feet with a speed of 376 knots.The safety record of China's airline industry has been among the best in the world over the past decade.

According to Aviation Safety Network, China's last fatal jet accident was in 2010, when 44 of 96 people on board were killed when an Embraer E-190 regional jet flown by Henan Airlines crashed on approach to Yichun airport in low visibility. REUTERS

 

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