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The Boeing 737-800 NG is widely used around the world.
The Boeing 737-800 NG, the model that crashed in China on Monday, is a workhorse of the skies. There are nearly 25,000 passenger planes in service worldwide, according to Cirium, an aviation data provider. Of those, about 4,200, or 17 percent, are Boeing 737-800 NGs. China is home to nearly 1,200 of those planes, followed by Europe, with nearly 1,000, and the United States, with nearly 800. American Airlines has 265 737-800 NGs in service, while Southwest Airlines has 205, United Airlines has 136 and Delta Air Lines has 77,…
China Eastern Flight Crashes With 132 Aboard
Advertisement A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. More than seven hours after communication was lost with the plane, there was still no word of survivors. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement the crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. The flight was traveling from Kunming in the…
Chinese plane with 132 people onboard crashes in Guangxi province
A passenger plane carrying 132 people has crashed in southern China, with no survivors announced so far, Chinese authorities have reported. The China Eastern Airlines plane departed Kunming at 1pm, on route to Guangzhou. At about 2.20pm, according to data from Flightradar24, the plane, a Boeing 737, plummeted more than 20,000 feet in just over a minute. It then seems to have regained altitude momentarily, before dropping rapidly again. The plane crashed near the city of Wuzhou in Teng County, Guangxi province. The Civil Aviation Administration said it had activated…
China Eastern: Plane carrying 132 people crashes in Guangxi mountains
Flight tracking sites report the plane was in the air for just over an hour, and was nearing its destination when it went down in Wuzhou, a verdant, mountainous area prone to mixed weather at this time of year as China enters its annual flood season. BBC