A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 133 people on board has crashed in Guangxi province.
The number of casualties is not yet known.
The crash of the Boeing 737 jet, in a mountainous region, led to a fire in the woods, state media is reporting.
Flight MU5735 was scheduled to leave Kunming at 13:15 local time (05:15 GMT) and was en route to Guangzhou.
Rescue crews have been deployed to the area.
The plane had crashed near Teng county in Wuzhou province. Guangxi is a southern province neighbouring Guangzhou, a major city in the south-east.
Flight trackers like FlightRadar24 show the location of the plane as "unknown".
More to follow.
[Source: BBC]
