China’s Boeing plane crash did not involve the troubled 737 Max
A China Eastern Airlines plane flying from southwestern Kunming to the southern metropolis of Guangzhou crashed today with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, Chinese state media reported.
The airline lost contact with the flight over the city of Wuzhou, according to China’s aviation regulator (link in Chinese). The crash occurred about halfway into the roughly two-hour flight, at around 2:30pm local time, when the plane appears to have gone into a sharp descent. The aviation regulator has sent an investigation team to the site.
The cause of today’s crash, China’s first fatal crash in a decade, is yet to be determined. Boeing has said it is working to gather more information.
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