China Plane Crash: China Eastern Airlines MU5735 Plane Crash Animation

China Plane Crash: China Eastern Airlines MU5735 Plane Crash Animation

WUZHOU, CHINA — China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 pulled out of one nosedive before another sent it crashing to the ground, according to flight data cited by the South China Morning Post.

On Monday, the Boeing 737-800[c] was traveling from Kunming, carrying 132 people, and had been due to land in Guangzhou in the afternoon.

Data from FlightRadar24 shows that just after 2:20 p.m.

The plane was at 29,100 feet when it began to dive down at speeds of up to 348 miles per hour.

After 20 seconds, the rate of descent became slower, and for the next 45 seconds the plane began to slowly level off, before reaching 7,425 feet above the ground and eventually beginning to climb back up.

About 15 seconds later, however, with the plane at 8,600 feet, it fell into a second dive which it did not recover from, crashing into the ground after around 30 seconds of falling, in a wooded area of Teng county, near Wuzhou city.

No survivors have been found.