- A passenger plane carrying 132 people crashed in China on Monday.
- Authorities said Tuesday that no survivors have been found yet.
- The plane crashed into a mountainside. The cause of the crash remains unknown.
No survivors have been found yet after a plane carrying 132 passengers crashed in southern China, authorities said.
Officials at China Eastern Airlines and the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) told a Tuesday press conference that they had not yet found any survivors from the Boeing 737-800 that crashed into a mountainside the day before, the state-run Xinhua and Reference News agencies reported.
"No survivors have been found on China Eastern Airlines MU5735 so far," said Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Office of the CAAC.
Zhu confirmed there were 123 passengers and nine crew members on the flight, and that none of them were foreign. Of the nine crew members, three were pilots, Zhu said.
A rescue mission had been underway since Monday.
The plane started a deep dive about halfway through its trip from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
China Eastern confirmed reports of the crash some eight hours after the fact, saying it lost contact with the aircraft when it was flying over Wuzhou, Guangxi.
The cause of the crash remains unknown.