A passenger plane with 132 people aboard, including 123 passengers and 9 crew members, crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the afternoon of March 21.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft, which departed from Kunming and was bound for Guangzhou, crashed into a mountainous area near the Molang village in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou at 2:38 p.m., causing a mountain fire, according to the regional emergency management department.
Rescuers are making all-out efforts to retrieve the black boxes of flight MU573. No survivors have been found so far, said an aviation official at a press briefing on the aircraft crash on March 22.
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Text | Xinhua, China Daily
