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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Hancock

China plane crash: Investigators find 49,000 pieces of Flight 5735 wreckage after 132 people killed

Xinhua

Rescue workers searching for wreckage from last week’s crash of a China Eastern passenger plane are “basically done,” after 49,000 pieces of debris were found.

Flight MU5735 took off from the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of the Yunnan province, on 21 March and was headed to Guangzhou, in the southeast of China, when it nosedived from 29,000ft into a mountainside in the Guangxi region, killing all 132 people on board.

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