A China Eastern Airlines Corp. Boeing Co. 737-800NG plane carrying 132 people crashed in China’s southwestern province of Guangxi.
According to FlightRadar24, China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou, and radar tracking shows the aircraft descending steeply.
Eyewitness videos posted to social media showed a forest fire on a mountainside at what was purported to be the crash site. China Central Television said the blaze that was triggered by the crash has now been put out.