No survivors found in crash of Chinese airliner carrying 132 people

No survivors found in crash of Chinese airliner carrying 132 people
A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a decade (Zhou Hua/Xinhua/AP)

China’s state broadcaster says no survivors have been found in the wreckage of a plane that crashed with 132 people on board.

The China Eastern plane which crashed in a forested and mountainous area on Monday was the country’s worst air disaster in a decade.

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