The shocking video of the moment the China Eastern plane crashed

A China Eastern’s Boeing 737-800 crashed in south China’s Guangxi province today. with 132 people on board in the worst civil air disaster recorded in the Asian country since 2010. Hours after the accident, a shocking video of the moment the device fell was released.

The plane, which was traveling between the cities of Kunming (southwest) and Canton (southeast) crashed with 123 passengers and 9 crew members on board, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) collected in a statement published several times. hours after the accident.

SIGHT: China Eastern Boeing 737 plane crashes in Guangxi with 132 on board

At first, state television CCTV reported that there were 133 people on board flight MU5735, which took off at 1:15 p.m. local time (05:15 GMT) before crashing to the ground in the region of Guangzhou (south) without further details being known at the moment or if there are survivors.

There is also no information on what caused the accident: “The precise nature of the incident remains undetermined,” CCTV reported without giving further details.

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The images of the moment of the accident were captured by the security cameras of the Chinese mining company Wuzhou Beichen Mining Co., which is 5.8 kilometers from the village of Molang, where the plane crashed. The video was released by the Chinese media and verified by the Reuters agency.

In the footage you can clearly see the plane crashing into the ground at a very high speed. The vertical drop of the aircraft is impressive.

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The last air tragedy reported by Chinese aviation was on August 24, 2010, when a Henan Airlines flight crashed in the city of Yichun in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, killing 44 people.

However, in 2016 five people died in another accident in Shanghai (east), that of a Joyair company seaplane that was making its inaugural flight with ten people on board.

The official Global Times newspaper was quick to recall that, as of February, China had exceeded 100 million safe flight hours, the best mark in the country’s history.

THE RESCUE TASKS, UNDERWAY

Rescue teams sent from different points in the south of China They went to the place to start -once the fire was extinguished- the search work, although with little prospect of finding survivors, given the height from which the device fell to the ground, according to images broadcast on social networks.

The information available at the moment indicates that more than 650 troops have been deployed in the area – in the Teng county of the city of Wuzhou, in Guangxi – as well as 23 fire trucks.

Rescue teams managed to put out the fire around 5:00 p.m. local time (09:00 GMT).according to the state chain.

After the event, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he was “shocked”and the Council of State (Executive) formed a committee to investigate both the causes of the accident “as soon as possible” and other possible safety problems in the civil aviation sector with the aim of “ensuring the absolute safety of aviation operations”. aviation”.

The flight had an expected duration of one hour and forty minutes, in which the device, almost seven years old, had to travel the 1,357 kilometers that separate Kunming from Canton.

According to data from the FlightRadar24 flight tracking portal, the aircraft was flying at 2:19 p.m. local time (06:19 GMT) at an altitude of 29,100 feet (8,870 meters) when, about 55 kilometers west of the town of Wuzhou, it began to descend.

The last point of contact of the flight, according to the aforementioned portal, was about 25 kilometers southwest of Wuzhou.at an altitude of 3,225 feet (989 meters), at 2:22 p.m. local time (06:22 GMT), which would mean that in just three minutes the device descended almost 8,000 meters.

CHINA EASTERN AND BOEING FALL IN THE STOCK MARKET

Less than an hour after the event was confirmed, the airline’s website and app Eastern Chinathe second in the country, changed their screens to black and white as a sign of mourning for the accident.

They also ordered that all 737-800 aircraft remain on the ground after the accident until more information is available about what happened, according to local press.

After the incident, around 5:15 p.m. Beijing time (09:15 GMT), shares of China Eastern in New York lost 16.03% during negotiations prior to the opening of the market, according to the economic news portal Yicai.

That same medium indicates that the titles of boeingwhich lowered their value by 8% in London and 6.6% in New York.

In recent months, the American company seemed to be getting closer to obtaining authorization again for its 737-MAX -a device different from the one in the accident- to fly again in China following its ban in March 2019 after two accidents, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people.

With information from EFE

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