Kunming - Guangzhou

On March 21, 2022 at 02:22 PM, Kunming - Guangzhou experienced a crash involving Boeing 737-800, operated by China Eastern Airlines, with the event recorded near Wuzhou Guangxi.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

132 people were known to be on board, 132 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 9, crew fatalities: 9, passengers on board: 123, passenger fatalities: 123, other fatalities: 0.

The airplane departed Kunming-Wujiaba Airport at 1315LT on a schedule service (flight MU5735) to Guangzhou, carrying 123 passengers and a crew of nine. At 1420LT, while cruising at an altitude of 29,100 feet, the aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent until 7,400 feet then climbed to 8,600 feet. It finally entered a steep descent and crashed almost two minutes later in a vertical attitude on hilly and wooded terrain located southwest of Wuzhou. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all 132 occupants were killed. Two days after the accident, the CVR was found while the DFDR was found on March 27.

Aircraft reference details include registration B-1791, MSN 41474/5433, year of manufacture 2015.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 23.4753°, 111.3107°.