On Wednesday afternoon, two days after the crash of Flight MU5735, it was raining in Molang, a village near the scene of the disaster in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Some relatives of the passengers who were on board the Boeing 737-800 burst     1     tears as rescuers and excavators (挖掘机) were working in a place — a mountainous area     2     their loved ones could lie    3    (bury). They left white and yellow chrysanthemums (菊花) — a flower that Chinese traditionally use to pay tribute (敬意) to    4     dead.

The plane, operated by China Eastern Airlines, left Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm on Monday for Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. Air traffic     5    (controller) lost track of the jet, which was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, over Wuzhou. The plane crashed at about 2:30 p.m., Xinhua News Agency reported.

The first rescue team, from Tengxian county, Wuzhou,     6    (arrive) at the crash site at 3:50 p.m. on Monday. As the road into the village is extremely narrow, it is not    7    (convenience) for large vehicles to enter the area. The report said villagers had helped bring in rescue materials on their motorcycles, which to some extent had eased transportation difficulties. By 7 p.m. on Wednesday, rescuers had searched an area covering 46,000 square meters, but failed to find a    8    (survive).

One of the aircraft’s two black boxes found on Wednesday, believed    9    (be) the cockpit (驾驶舱) voice recorder, was sent to Beijing, according to Zhu Tao. He said the exterior of the black box was     10    (severe) damaged, but its data storage unit survived.

All-out search and rescue efforts     1    (be)underway on Monday, 21st, Mar, 2022, after a China Eastern Airlines aircraft     2     (carry) 132 people crashed in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the afternoon-ending China’s 12-year air safety record.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm and was scheduled to arrive     3     Guangzhou, Guangdong province, at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi. The flight was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

In an instruction issued (发布) shortly after the crash, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said he was     4    (shock) to learn about the accident and asked for the immediate launch of an emergency response.

Premier Li Keqiang also made     5     instruction on Monday, urging that utmost (最大限度的) efforts     6     (make) to search for survivors and treat the injured. He also stressed that efforts be made     7    (comfort) the victims’ families and provide them with necessary help.

Li asked authorities to release relevant information in a     8    (time), accurate and evidence-based manner, find the cause of the accident and take     9     (measure) to strengthen civil aviation safety management.

More than 640 firefighters from nearby Yunnan and Guangdong provinces were dispatched (急遣) to the crash site. Police officers and members of the People’s Armed Police Force were also sent to the crash scene for search and rescue work,     10     was a clear reflection of local authorities’ immediate response to the emergency.

A China Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying 132 people crashed in the mountains in southern China’s Guangxi region on Monday afternoon, according to the country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC).

The Boeing 737     1    (fly) from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou. On board     2    (be) 123 passengers and nine crew members, CAAC said in a statement     3    (post) online. China Eastern Airlines confirmed those details and said it had activated emergency procedures, including a line for emergency assistance for family     4    (member). Rescue efforts are underway at the scene of the crash, but there were no immediate details on the possible cause or the number of casualties (伤亡者). China Eastern offered its condolences (哀悼) to those     5    were killed in the incident, without confirming any death toll (伤亡人数). “The cause of the plane crash is still     6    investigation. The company expresses its     7    (sorrow) condolences to the passengers and crew members who died in this plane crash,” the airline said in a     8    (state). Chinese President Xi Jinping instructed the country’s emergency services to “organize a search and rescue” operation and “identify the causes of the accident,” state media reported.

“After     9     accident, President Xi Jinping immediately made instructions to start the emergency mechanism, organize search and rescue, and     10    (proper) deal with the aftermath,” state broadcaster CCTV said.