The China Eastern airlines flight had 132 people on board. In less than three minutes the Boeing descended 9 kilometers, crashing in a mountainous area. Rescue efforts continue to undermine the debris from the accident.
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The search for the black boxes of the Boeing 737-800 of the China Eastern airline that crashed this past Monday continues for the second day. The plane crashed in a mountainous area of Hard access. The first images of the rescue efforts show workers and paramilitary forces searching for the debris from the accident, making their way through wooded mounds. An excavator has had to clear the only access road.
The airline has reported that the cause of the accident is yet to be clarified. Investigators are undermining the wreckage of the plane and looking for the black boxes in pursuit of clarifying why he began to lose height. These events involve multiple factors, but experts say it is too early to understand the reason for the fall.
The plane, with 132 people on board (123 passengers and 9 crew), crashed yesterday in the Guangxi region, near the southern coast of China. It is feared that there will be no survivors. The Boeing 737-800, almost seven years old, was traveling between the Chinese cities of Kunming (southwest) and Canton.
The flight had taken off at 1:11 p.m. local time (06:11 a.m. in Euskal Herria), and had an expected duration of one hour and forty minutes. About 55 kilometers west of the town of Wuzhou, the plane began to lose altitude and crashed.
Canceled flights
China Eastern has canceled more than 1,900 flights in the Asian country. These flights accounted for 90% of the flights scheduled for today. The decision comes after ordering on Monday that all its Boeing 737-800 planes, the model of the crashed plane, remain on the ground. Other airlines such as Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines have also canceled 737-800 flights.
Source: Eitb
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