Beijing - A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 with 132 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, as reported by the state media.

Broadcaster CCTV said the accident  occurred near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county.

Rescuers were dispatched and no immediate confirmation of causalities and injures are known.

The flight that crashed appeared to be Flight No. MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou, according to data from flight-tracking website FlightRadar24. Initial data suggests that the Boeing 737-89P rapidly lost speed after 0620 GMT before entering a sharp descent.

The plane stopped transmitting data just southwest of the Chinese city of Wuzhou.

The aircraft delivered to China Eastern from Boeing in June 2015, had been flying for over six years.

China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in 2010.
-AP