A Boeing 737-800 China Eastern Airlines plane crashed in China, near Wuzhou city. According to eyewitnesses, the Boeing 737 China Eastern Airlines crashed almost vertically. It dropped from 30000ft to ground impact in less than three minutes.
# BREAKING | First visuals of China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crashing in south China shows a near-vertical crash into the mountain area; Tune in #LIVE here - https://t.co/kJjJ8boiw2 pic.twitter.com/IpGSFkg7C0
- Republic (@republic) March 21, 2022
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft involved in the crash recorded a total of 17 flight hours in 708 cycles, according to the Aviation Week Network Fleet Discovery database. It was shipped to China in June 8. Data provided by Flightradar734 shows that the aircraft lost altitude rapidly.
There were 123 passengers and 9 crew members on board. There are unlikely to be any survivors if we consider how it crashed and the fire after the crash.