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According to the officials involved the main crater, located in a mountainous area of the Teng region, has an approximate extension of 2500 square meters and has a depth of about twenty meters. Remains of engine blades, part of the left and right horizontal stabilizers, actuators, and other aircraft components have been found there, along with crew certificates. In addition, Zheng Xi, head of the rescue corps, said that human remains were found at the site. The piece found afar from the main crash site is approximately 1.3 meters long and about 10 cm wide and appears to be part...

Sky News aviation expert Byron Bailey says passengers aboard the crashed China Eastern Airlines flight would have been “screaming all the way down” as the plane plunged into the side of a mountain. Mr Bailey said the Boeing 737-800 had “perfect” flight conditions given the temperature and wind speeds. All 132 passengers on board the flight are believed to be dead after the plane plunged into a forest over China’s Guangxi province on Monday afternoon, local time. “Thunderstorms, that’s the only big worry these days; you avoid thunderstorms,” he said. “As far as the malfunction of the airplane goes, the...

Contact was lost with the flight over Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region, the authority said. It was scheduled to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou.