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China Eastern crash is rare disaster for state-run airlines

A worker wearing a protective suit prepares to assist people outside a hotel displaying a notice board which reads "This hotel has been requisitioned for emergency use by personnel involved in China Eastern's flight MU5735 incident" in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. No survivors have been found as rescuers on Tuesday searched the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane that crashed a day earlier on a wooded mountainside in China's worst air disaster in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang) Tents with the characters that read "Disaster rescue" are erected at the entrance to Lv village which leads to the site of the China Eastern plane crash, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in southwestern China's Guangxi province. The crash of a China Eastern 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. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, emergency personnel travel to the site of a plane crash near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, March 21, 2022. A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said. (CCTV via AP) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, emergency personnel prepare to travel to the site of a plane crash near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, March 21, 2022. A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said. (CCTV via AP) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, emergency personnel prepare to travel to the site of a plane crash near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, March 21, 2022. A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said. (CCTV via AP) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, emergency personnel prepare to travel to the site of a plane crash near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, March 21, 2022. A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said. (CCTV via AP)