BELJING: Smoke was seen belching from a Boeing 737 passenger jet before it slammed into a mountain and exploded Nov.24 killing all 141 people on board the Chinese government said.
It was the highest death toll in an air disaster in Chinese history —
The domestic flight was headed from the southern city of Canton to the tourist town of Guilin.
Most of the 133 passengers and eight crew members aboard the flight was mainland Chinese.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 4, 1992
