The Boeing Co. shares fell 8% in premarket trade Monday, after a Chinese airlines with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday. Chinese broadcaster CCTV said the accident involved a China Eastern Airlines Boeing and occurred near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county, the Associated Press reported. There was no immediate information available on numbers of dead and injured. The news also sent shares of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. down 9% premarket.
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