Accidents
China Eastern Returns Boeing 737-800s to Service
Almost a month after the crash of China Eastern Flight MU5735, Chinese authorities cleared the airline’s fleet for return to scheduled service.

China Eastern Airlines has resumed service with Boeing 737-800s roughly a month after Flight MU5735 crashed on March 21 while en route from Kunming to Guangzhou, killing all 132 people on board. The airline grounded its fleet of 108 of the narrowbodies immediately following the crash in a mountainous area in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.