Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.
The crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet in China s southwest started a fire big enough to be seen from space and forced rescuers to search a rugged, remote mountainside.