No survivors found yet after a flight carrying 132 people crashed in China, authorities say

• A passenger plane carrying 132 people crashed in China on Monday.
• Authorities said Tuesday that no survivors had been found yet.

No survivors had been found a day after a plane carrying 132 people crashed in southern China, authorities said.

Officials at China Eastern Airlines and the Civil Aviation Authority of China told a Tuesday press conference that they had not yet found any survivors from the Boeing 737-800 that crashed into a mountainside the day before, the state-run Xinhua and Reference News agencies reported.

"No survivors have been found on China Eastern Airlines MU5735 so far," said Zhu Tao, the director of the Aviation Safety Office of the CAAC.

Zhu confirmed reports that there were 123 passengers and nine crew members on the flight and said none of them were foreign. Of the nine crew members, three were pilots, Zhu said.

A rescue mission had been underway since Monday.

The plane started a deep dive about halfway through its trip from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.

China Eastern confirmed reports of the crash some eight hours after the fact, saying it lost contact with the aircraft when it was flying over Wuzhou, a city in the Guangxi region.

The cause of the crash remains unknown.