New Delhi: A China Airlines’ Boeing 737 aircraft carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew members, flying from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed into the mountains in the country’s southern province of Guangxi today.
The casualties in the horrifying incident are still unknown, while China’s largest news daily Reuters quotes People’s Daily, that there were no signs of life among the scattered debris.
The latest footage in the pretext of the accident has emerged, caught by a local mining company’s security camera, as per the news reports.
In the video clip, the plane can be seen plunging towards the mountain with great speed before crashing into it and catching fire in its final seconds.
Final seconds of #MU5735 pic.twitter.com/gCoMX1iMDL
— ChinaAviationReview (@ChinaAvReview) March 21, 2022
In another video shared by state-run CGTN, a news channel based in Beijing, several pieces of the aircraft can be seen scattered on the accident site.
Video footage taken by local villagers shows the aftermath of a plane crash in south China on Monday. The Boeing 737 crashed with 132 people on board.
CGTN has the latest updates: https://t.co/KenJaQ0l9O pic.twitter.com/JMHh7viEeA
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) March 21, 2022
In a couple of pics posted by CGTN, a part of the plane was found burning in the forest, a little far from the site.
Pictures from the scene of a #Boeing 737 crash in south #China.
latest: https://t.co/otZytipiEw pic.twitter.com/IBFrkJDsK3
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) March 21, 2022
Soon after the crash took place, the airline’s website and media handles were turned black and white, as a sign of respect.
