The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet was flying a normal route to Guangzhou when it suddenly nosed over, at cruise altitude, and dove.
That’s about all that is known for certain about the unusual crash that killed all 132 people aboard the aircraft Monday in China’s worst aviation accident in more than a decade.
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