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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

China plane crash: 132 killed as Boeing 737 smashes into remote mountains after near-vertical dive

AP

A Chinese airline has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft after one entered a near-vertical dive and plummeted almost 30,000ft in two minutes, smashing into a remote mountainside and killing all 132 passengers and crew.

China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong, when it crashed into the ground at 350mph.

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