State media reported all Boeing 737-800s in China Eastern's fleet were ordered grounded, an unusual move when there is no evidence the plane model is flawed.
Rescuers have kept up their search for survivors in the heavily forested mountains of China's southern Guangxi region, with Chinese state media describing the situation as "grim".
KUNMING, China (AP) No survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday of the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier in a forested mountainous area in China's worst air disaster in a decade.