A Chinese navy airplane crashed late Thursday night during a training mission in east China's Zhejiang Province, said navy sources on Friday.

The plane, part of the Donghai Fleet of the Chinese navy, crashed at 10:37 p.m. Thursday in a mountainous region of Yiwu in Zhejiang when conducting a tactical training mission, the sources said.

The accident did not cause collateral damage, they /confirm/ied.

The navy is trying hard to search for and rescue the crew, the sources said, but they did not reveal how many people were on board.