GUANGZHOU, GUANGDONG, CHINA – 2019/10/03: Brand of China Japanese Airways seen on a Boeing 737-800 in Guangzhou Baiyun Worldwide Airport.
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China’s aviation authority has confirmed {that a} China Japanese Airways Boeing 737 passenger aircraft crashed Monday, with 132 individuals on board, together with 123 passengers and 9 crew members.
Contact was misplaced with the flight over Wuzhou, within the Guangxi area, the authority stated. It was scheduled to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou.
The Civil Aviation Administration stated it had “activated the emergency mechanism and dispatched a working group to the scene,” in response to a translation. Chinese language state media stated the crash had induced a mountain fireplace.
Boeing shares had been down over 6% in after-hours buying and selling. The corporate was not instantly accessible for remark when contacted by CNBC.
China Japanese Airways confirmed the crash and the variety of individuals on board by way of an announcement on Weibo, China’s model of Twitter. The airline stated it’s sending employees to the positioning of the crash and has opened a hotline for members of the family.
It additionally modified the colours of its web site to black and white — one thing airways do following a crash out of respect for any casualties.
The crash comes as Boeing has been making an attempt to recuperate its repute after a lot of main incidents in recent times.
The corporate’s 737 Max passenger plane was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 — and longer in some locations — after manufacturing faults had been discovered to have induced two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Indonesia’s Lion Air Flight 610 crashed on Oct. 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airways Flight 302 got here down on March 10, 2019, killing a mixed 346 individuals.
The final severe passenger aircraft crash in China was in 2010, when 42 individuals died on a Henan Airways Embraer E-190 flight.
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