A Chinese Eastern Airlines flight 5735, a Boeing 737 with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, crashed in southern China, killing everyone on board in the first air disaster of 2022, the Associated Press reports.
The crash occurred near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region. The flight was traveling from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast.
The plane, delivered to the airline in 2015, was traveling at 455 knots (523 mph) at 30,000 feet when it went into a dive, before crashing about a minute and a half later. Chinese authorities have grounded all similar 737-800 aircraft while investigating the crash.