Beijing, The Indonesia Post – Chinese President Xi Jinping issued an emergency action instruction regarding the crash of a passenger plane belonging to China Eastern Airlines in the Guangxi Autonomous Region, Monday afternoon.
Take immediate action according to the emergency response mechanism, make tireless search and rescue efforts, and take appropriate action after the incident, Xi’s instructions circulated in Chinese media.
The State Council followed up the instruction by appointing several officials to handle the incident, identify the cause of the accident, and strengthen the civil aviation sector disaster investigation to ensure the safety of aviation operations and the lives of residents in the future.
Premier Li Keqiang called for immediate efforts for the search and treatment of the injured and reassurance of the families of the victims.
The Chinese cabinet leader also encouraged relevant departments to carefully identify the cause of the accident and take immediate action to strengthen the civil aviation security system.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the Ministry of Emergency, and several related departments sent a task force to the crash site.
The Boeing-737 flight number MU-5735 for the Kunming-Guangzhou route crashed over the hills of Guangxi in southern China at around 14.00 local time (13.00 WIB).
As many as 132 passengers and crew have not been identified until now.
At around 3 p.m., the Wuzhou City Fire Brigade was dispatched to the crash site in the Tengxiang County area of Guangxi.
“We have dispatched 25 fire extinguishers and 117 firefighters to the scene. However, the scene is very remote on top of the hills, the fire extinguishers cannot reach and firefighters climb to the scene,” an official of the Wuzhou Fire Brigade said, as quoted by a local news website.
The incident was China’s worst air crash since the plane crash in Yinchun, Heilongjiang Province, in 2010.
China’s aviation authority on February 19, 2022 released that the safe civil flight time managed to surpass 100 million hours, the best record in the history of China’s civil aviation industry. (ojn/mhn/bbs)
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