Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from China Eastern

Here’s what we know about the China plane crash so far

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board went into a near-vertical dive and crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday. It was the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade. Investigators are attempting to piece together the cause of the crash. Here’s…

Tribune News Service

China examines cockpit voice recorder from crashed airliner

Chinese investigators began examining the cockpit voice recorder from a China Eastern Airlines jet that plunged into mountainside with 132 people on board as recovery crews searched muddy fields on Thursday for a second black box.

Reuters

Voice Recorder, Passenger Remains Found From Flight MU5735

More than 330 rescue workers comb 46,000 square-meter site of China Eastern Airlines crash in search for clues to disaster

Caixin Global

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Explainer-How black boxes of crashed Chinese jet will be handled

Chinese authorities on Sunday recovered the second black box from a China Eastern Airlines jet that plunged into a mountainside last Monday with 132 people on board, state media reported. [nL2N2VU011]

Reuters

Black box from crashed China Eastern plane found

China says one of two black boxes from the China Eastern plane crash has been found in a severely damaged condition.

Evening Standard

One 'Black Box' Found in China Plane Crash

China said Wednesday one of two black boxes from the China Eastern plane crash was found in severely damaged condition. The recorder is so damaged that they are not able to tell whether it is the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder. Mao Yanfeng, the director of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Black box from China plane crash FOUND in bid to solve disaster mystery

The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed in the country's southern province of Guangxi on Monday carrying 132 people - no sign of survivors have been found

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Black box found as search for China Eastern Airlines plane crash victims goes on

Chinese authorities say one of the black boxes from an airliner which dived vertically into a hillside with 132 people on board has been found, but in a severely damaged condition.

ABC News

China jet’s fatal dive took it near speed of sound before crash

The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet that crashed Monday was traveling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of flight-track data.

Tribune News Service

China finds first black box from crashed jet, U.S. discussing quarantine for investigators

Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed with 132 people onboard, but U.S. efforts to join the investigation are on hold because of COVID-19 quarantine rules.

Reuters

China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear

WUZHOU: Rescuers in southern China searched for victims from a China Eastern Airlines jet on Tuesday after it crashed with 132 people on board and authorities said severe damage to the aircraft would make it difficult to establish the cause of the crash.

Bangkok Post

Harrowing images from Chinese Eastern plane crash site show charred personal belongings

Dozens of rescuers rummaged through the rubble today, on the remote Chinese mountainside where China Eastern Flight 5735 mysteriously fell from the sky, carrying 132 people

Daily Mirror

The Loop: Ukrainians going on offensive, China shuts down a city as Omicron surges, and how coughing into your phone could detect COVID

Here's your TL;DR for this morning's news.

ABC News

China jet’s nosedive from 29,000 feet baffles crash specialists

The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet was flying a normal route to Guangzhou when it suddenly nosed over at cruise altitude and dove.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

Finding China Eastern black boxes ‘key task’ for search teams

No survivors have been found since the plane plunged from its cruising altitude during a flight to Guangzhou on Monday.

Daily Mirror

China plane crash: Unexplained 30 seconds from doomed flight baffles experts

As mystery surrounds how the aircraft fell from the sky with such speed, aviation experts have said there appears to be 30 seconds unaccounted for - from the final 150 seconds recorded

Daily Mirror

Woman who knew six people killed in China plane crash lights 100 candles for them

A search is under way around heavily forested slopes for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines jet after it crashed on Monday in the mountains of southern Guangxi with 132 people on board

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Searches for Victims, Flight Recorders after First Plane Crash in 12 Years

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn across mountain slopes charred by fire…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What is known about the China Eastern plane crash

The crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet in China’s southwest started a fire big enough to be seen from space and forced rescuers to search a rugged, remote mountainside

The Independent UK

AP News Digest 3 am

Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org.

Al Jazeera

China Boeing 737 crash: Grim search as rescue teams comb hillside

Firefighters and paramilitary police deployed to steeply-forested slopes of China’s first air crash in a decade.

Al Jazeera

China Eastern crash adds to Boeing’s woes in Chinese market

The aircraft maker is trying to rebuild confidence in China after fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The Independent UK

China Eastern crash is rare disaster for state-run airlines

China is, along with North America and Europe, one of the world’s top three air travel markets and has dramatically improved safety since a string of deadly crashes in the 1990s and 2000s

Bangkok Post

Plane carrying 132 crashes into mountain

A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed into a mountain in southern China on Monday.

Reuters

China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear

Rescuers in southern China searched for victims from a China Eastern Airlines jet on Tuesday after it crashed with 132 people on board and authorities said severe damage to the aircraft would make it difficult to establish the cause of the crash.

1 2 3 4

People

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Carlos Garcia Rawlins

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Federal Aviation Administration

151 stories

China Eastern

87 stories

China Eastern Airlines

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.