China Plane Lost 26,000 Feet In Under 3 Minutes Before Crash, Data Shows
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The Boeing 737-800 left China's Kunming at 1:11 pm, FlightRadar24 data showed, and had been due to land in Guangzhou at 3:05 p.m.
The China Eastern Airlines plane with 132 people on board that crashed in mountains in southern China on Monday reported a sudden loss of cruising altitude - nearly 26,000 feet under 3 minutes, according to online flight tracker FlightRadar24. Final seconds of #MU5735pic.twitter.com/gCoMX1iMDL Dash cam footage pic.twitter.com/w8iOzHblXE
The Boeing 737-800 left China's Kunming at 1:11 pm, FlightRadar24 data showed, and had been due to land in Guangzhou at 3:05 p.m. The website showed no data for the flight after 2:22 pm.
The plane, which Flightradar24 said was six years old, had been cruising at an altitude of 29,100 feet at 0620 GMT. Just over two minutes and 15 seconds later, data showed it had descended to 9,075 feet.
In another 20 seconds, its last tracked altitude was 3,225 feet.
