A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 132 people crashed in China’s Guangxi region on Monday afternoon. The cause of the crash and number of casualties and survivors is still unknown.
The Boeing 737 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou in southern China. The airline has now grounded the rest of its Boeing 737-800s.
The plane lost contact while it was flying over Wuzhou, and its flight tracker shows that the plane dropped almost 26,000 feet in less than three minutes. The crash caused a mountain fire near the city, which first responders have already extinguished.
Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Tuesday that Taiwan is willing to help China investigate the accident. China has already sent hundreds of responders to the crash site to search for survivors.
Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Tai-san says authorities are still investigating whether any Taiwanese citizens were on the flight. Chinese state media has already announced that there were no foreigners on the flight, but it is unclear whether Taiwanese nationals were counted as Chinese citizens.