By Karuna Thapa
Kathmandu, March 27
On Saturday, all 132 passengers and crew members onboard a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in China on Monday were declared dead.
On the way from Kunming to Guangzhou, a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 carrying 123
passengers and nine crew members crashed in a hilly part of the southern province. After
failing to locate anyone alive for 20 hours, Chinese officials assumed that everyone had died.
However, the fatalities were confirmed by the Chinese state authorities on Saturday.
China Eastern Airlines’ Boeing 737, which was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in hilly terrain near Molang village in Wenzhou city, Tenxian County, at 2:38 p.m. on Monday.
After the disaster, more than 2,000 individuals were rushed to the rescue and search.
On Wednesday, the plane’s black box was found. The black box, which stores all of the aircraft’s data as well as records of the pilot’s communications, is believed to identify the disaster.
