The Washington Post - USA (2022-03-27)

SUNDAY, MARCH 27 , 2022. THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A25

BY CLAIRE PARKER

All 132 people aboard the
China Eastern Airlines plane
that crashed into a mountain in
southern China are dead, a sen-
ior official in the Chinese avia-
tion administration told Chinese
state media Saturday.
China Daily reported the
death toll, which comes after a
rescue mission that scoured for
days the site of the deadliest
plane crash in the country in
nearly three decades. Search
teams recovered a black box
from the wreckage of the Boeing
737 jet earlier in the week but
found no survivors.
China Eastern Airlines Flight
5735 had been carrying 123 pas-
sengers and nine crew members
from Kunming toward Guang-
zhou when it nosedived into the
mountains in Guangxi on Mon-
day afternoon, according to vid-
eo footage and witness accounts.
The plane plunged more than
25,000 feet in less than three
minutes and crashed into a
mountain near Molang village in

the city of Wuzhou, sparking a

forest fire.

The cause of the crash has

perplexed aviation authorities

and experts. The weather was

fine, the pilots did not raise

alarms and the plane did not

appear to have broken apart in

flight. China has one of the

strongest aviation safety records

in the world.

Outgoing Federal Aviation Ad-

ministrator Steve Dickson called

the type of Boeing plane that

went down “one of the safest

aircraft ever produced in com-

mercial operation.”

Hundreds of firefighters and

rescue teams were sent to the

scene in the southern province of

China, local officials said.

The U.S. National Transporta-

tion Safety Board has assembled

a team of technical experts from

the Federal Aviation Administra-

tion, Boeing and engine manu-

facturer CFM International to

join the Chinese investigation

into the crash.

Search teams retrieved one of

the two black boxes, which con-

tain recorded information from

the flight that can help investiga-

tors determine the cause of a

crash.

But the black box sustained

serious damage, Chinese avia-

tion administration official Mao

Yanfeng said Wednesday.

Passengers on the plane in-

cluded a young couple who had

been taking their toddler daugh-

ter to get surgery in Guangzhou,

executives from a Guangzhou

mining company, a woman who

had recently married and a wom-

an returning to Guangzhou after

going home for Lunar New Year,

local media reported.

More than 500 family mem-

bers descended on the nearby

city of Wuzhou to await word on

the fates of relatives who had

been onboard, the Chinese state

Xinhua News Agency reported.

The plane crash is the deadli-

est in China since 1994, when a

China Northwest Airlines flight

crashed in Xian after an auto-

pilot malfunction caused the

plane to break up in midair,

killing 160 people.

All 1 32 people aboard the plane that

crashed in southern C hina are dead

ZHOU HUA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rescuers carry a piece of the plane wreckage at the site of the crash in the southern Guangxi province.
A Chinese official said one black box from the Boeing 737 jet was found but sustained serious damage.

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