(Yicai Global) March 22 -- Rescuers have rushed to the remote mountainside in southern China where a China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 132 people on board crashed yesterday, in a desperate search for survivors and to look for remnants of the plane that might explain what went wrong.

Flight MU5735 was en route from Kunming in southwestern Yunnan province to Guangzhou in southeastern Guangdong province when it lost contact with ground control. It came down near Teng county in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region at about 2.30 p.m. China time, state broadcaster CCTV reported. It was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

It is the 12^th incident involving the Boeing 737-800 series and Shanghai-based China Eastern has since grounded its entire fleet of those planes. A special team has been set up at Guangzhou’s Baiyun airport to support family members. The rescue effort is ongoing.

Rescue workers line up on the side of the road, ready to get to work.

The scene of the plane crash.

Rescue workers search the wreckage for traces of the victims and plane parts.

A temporary rescue headquarters is set up near the accident site.

Pieces of the destroyed plane lie in the forest.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Kim Taylor