{"id":42753,"date":"2022-03-22T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/china-eastern-airlines-crash-families-await-grim-news-as-rescuers-sift-through-wreckage"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:28:46","slug":"china-eastern-airlines-crash-families-await-grim-news-as-rescuers-sift-through-wreckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42753","title":{"rendered":"China Eastern Airlines crash: families await grim news as rescuers sift through wreckage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media report no survivors after a Boeing 737-800 flight crashed into mountainous terrain with 132 on board<\/p>\n<p>About an hour into its journey from Kunming to Gaungzhou, flight MU5735 fell out of the air. After cruising at an altitude of 29,100ft, it suddenly dropped to about 7,000ft where it briefly ascended before diving again and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/21\/chinese-plane-crashes-guangxi-province-china-eastern-737-wuzhou\">crashing into remote bamboo forest<\/a> in the mountains near Wuzhou. The fall appears to have taken around two minutes, according to flight tracking data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plane did not smoke during the fall,\u201d a witness told the Beijing Youth Daily. \u201cThe fire started after it fell into the mountain, followed by a lot of smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/china-eastern-airlines-crash-families-await-grim-news-as-rescuers-sift-through-wreckage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media report no survivors after a Boeing 737-800 flight crashed into mountainous terrain with 132 on boardAbout an hour into its journey from Kunming to Gaungzhou, flight MU5735 fell out of the air. After cruising at an altitude of 29,100ft, it s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,931,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-plane-crashes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42754,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42753\/revisions\/42754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}