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EXPLAINER: What is known about the China Eastern plane crash

Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Workers wearing protective suits assist people outside a hotel which has 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) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers search the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, soldiers conduct search operations at the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, rescuers and soldiers conduct search operations at the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) A fire department vehicle arrives with equipment at the entrance to Lv village which leads to the site of a plane crash, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in southwestern China's Guangxi province. 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. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, debris is surrounded by police tape and marked number at the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. (CCTV via AP Video) Government workers control access 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)
EXPLAINER: What is known about the China Eastern plane crash