Rescue efforts underway after China Eastern plane crash in Guangxi

Firefighters conduct search and rescue work near the site where a passenger plane with 132 people aboard crashed in Tengxian county in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. - China Daily

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): Rescuers scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday (March 22) with hopes to find 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 after China's first crash involving a commercial jetliner since 2010.