The Guangxi Emergency Management Department has confirmed that China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration B-1791, operating flight #MU5735 flying from Kunming to Guanghzou has crashed. Chinese Media CCTV has reported that the crashed in a mountain with 133 onboard near Wuzhou airport. Emergency Teams are currently searching the area for any survivers.
#MU5735
— ChinaAviationReview (@ChinaAvReview) March 21, 2022
Not a good sign?? pic.twitter.com/0Djd0jdut9
Several videos on Twitter shows a large mountain fire in the vicinity of the crash site.
BREAKING: Reported footage of China’s #MU5735 plane crash https://t.co/Lishlp3ejL pic.twitter.com/0UdTZdcYxe
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 21, 2022
According to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, the last couple of ADS-B readouts shows vertical speed in excess of 25.000ft/min with the last one showing 30.976ft/min.
The aircraft was delivered to China Eastern Airlines in June 2015 and was painted in “Yunnan Peacock (orange)” special colours.
