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China Eastern Boeing 737-800 crashes near Guangxi, killing all 132 onboard

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We have reported on our main page about the crash near Guangxi of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew on flight MU5735, after an almost vertical dive.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/chin ... gxi-china/

Hereunder we shall provide further news about that accident.

Latest on MU5735:
  • First black box (cockpit voice recorder) was recovered rapidly but appeared to be damaged
  • Second black box was found 1.5 m into the ground!
  • Storage unit of the second black box of MU5735 appears intact, other parts severely damaged. The second black box arrived in Beijing at 16:20 Sunday and was immediately transferred to a decoding lab in a professional institution, the CAAC
  • A 1m piece of the aircraft has been found at 10 km of the impact
  • 9 items belonging to victims and 729 pieces of plane wreckage were found today
  • 736 rescue workers have accessed mental health support
  • Compensation work of families of victims has begun
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A simulation video of the last seconds of the flight:
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This looks more like a flight sim session, shouldn't we wait for the data recorder results ?

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China said the black boxes of the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged, leaving virtually no publicly available clues to explain its violent plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 people on board.
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sn26567 wrote: 21 Apr 2022, 15:41 China said the black boxes of the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged, leaving virtually no publicly available clues to explain its violent plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 people on board.
Are you sure China said that?
That's not what I read elsewhere...

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Lux_avi wrote: 21 Apr 2022, 17:40
sn26567 wrote: 21 Apr 2022, 15:41 China said the black boxes of the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged, leaving virtually no publicly available clues to explain its violent plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 people on board.
Are you sure China said that?
That's not what I read elsewhere...
What did you read elsewhere ? Please elaborate, this is a discussion forum ;-)

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luchtzak wrote: 21 Apr 2022, 18:30
What did you read elsewhere ? Please elaborate, this is a discussion forum ;-)
https://www-caac-gov-cn.translate.goog/ ... r_pto=wapp#

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Lux_avi wrote: 22 Apr 2022, 08:56
luchtzak wrote: 21 Apr 2022, 18:30
What did you read elsewhere ? Please elaborate, this is a discussion forum ;-)
https://www-caac-gov-cn.translate.goog/ ... r_pto=wapp#
It still says what I wrote "the two recorders on the aircraft were severely damaged due to the impact", and it adds thatthe data restoration and analysis work is still in progress.
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China Eastern 737 was intact when it struck the ground

In an update this week, Chinese investigators stated that all major structural components of the aircraft were found at the main crash site. A winglet trailing edge was found 10 km from the site.
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sn26567 wrote: 22 Apr 2022, 20:56

It still says what I wrote "the two recorders on the aircraft were severely damaged due to the impact", and it adds thatthe data restoration and analysis work is still in progress.

Yes. Exactly.

So why do you state the following; China said the black boxes of the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged, leaving virtually no publicly available clues to explain its violent plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 people on board.?

For someone who didn't read the official report, that means no data will ever be available... which is incorrect.

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BREAKING: Black boxes indicate someone intentionally crashed China Eastern Boeing 737-800!

The Wall Street Journal reports that flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet earlier this year, according to people familiar with U.S. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident.

The Boeing 737-800 was cruising at high altitude when it suddenly pitched into a near-vertical descent, plummeting into a mountain at extreme speed. Data from a black box recovered in the crash suggest inputs to the controls pushed the plane into the fatal dive, these people said.

The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit,” said a person who is familiar with American officials’ preliminary assessment, which includes an analysis of information extracted from the plane’s damaged flight data recorder.

Also underpinning the American officials’ assessment, this person said that Chinese authorities, who are leading the investigation, so far haven’t flagged any mechanical or flight-control problems with the plane involved in the March 21 crash in southern China. That model is a workhorse of the global aviation industry and is part of a family of Boeing aircraft that has one of the best safety records in commercial flying.

https://technocharger.com/wsj-news-excl ... -nosedive/
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Not surprisingly, China has since rejected the conclusion of the report. Chinese pilots don't make errors!
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