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China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was making a short trip between two cities in southern China on Monday, cruising at an altitude of more than 29,000 feet, when it began a violent plunge toward the earth . Residents in the area described hearing a boom, apparently from the plane crashing into a hillside, and then seeing smoke from the fires it had ignited. On Saturday night, the Chinese authorities confirmed what had seemed all but certain for days: that none of the 132 people aboard had survived. “It was in fragments scattered all around,” Li Chenbin, a technician in the...
