BEIJING, March 26, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - All 132 people aboard the plane that crashed into a mountainside in southern China on Monday are confirmed dead, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

"All 123 passengers and nine crew members of flight MU5735 of China Eastern airlines have been killed on board on March 21," CCTV said, citing the deputy director-general of the civil aviation administration, Hu Zhenjiang.