Chinese aviation authorities said they had found no survivors so far from a crashed China Eastern jet nearly 36 hours after it plunged into a mountainside with 132 people on board.
"Up to now, search and rescue work has not found any survivors," Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at China's aviation authority told reporters in the first official comments on the likelihood all of the passengers dying in the air disaster.
Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn among trees charred by fire after China's first crash of a commercial jetliner since 2010.
Burnt remains of identity cards and wallets were also seen, state media said.
Flight MU5735 was travelling to the port city of Guangzhou from Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, when it suddenly plunged from cruising altitude and crashed in the mountains of Guangxi less than an hour before it was due to land.
Chinese media carried brief highway video images from a vehicle's dashboard camera that appeared to show a jet diving to the ground at an angle of about 35 degrees from the vertical.
