All 132 people aboard the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday were killed, official sources said Saturday night.
“All 123 passengers and nine crew members on board China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735, which departed on March 21, died,” Hu Zhenhong, deputy head of the Civil Aviation Administration of the People’s Republic of China, told a news conference. .
“We can say with confidence that during the search and rescue operation it was not possible to detect signs of life of any of the people on board. Through DNA analysis, it was possible to identify 120 dead, “added the representative of the agency.
On March 21, the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in China’s Wuzhou Prefecture, southern Guangxi Province.
