Records show that someone, such as a pilot or someone who had penetrated the cockpit, entered commands to send the Boeing 737-800 into a nosedive. The newspaper reports that The Wall Street Journal, who devoted a large article to it. US government officials speak of a ‘preliminary assessment’.
China Eastern flight MU5375 was en route from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21 when it inexplicably crashed from an altitude of 29,000 feet. fell down and crashed into a mountainside. A fire also broke out as a result of the crash. All 123 passengers and nine crew members are of Chinese nationality.
Fallen from the sky
It happened in a region where a lot of tea is grown and, as RTL Nieuws correspondent Ronald Smid said at the time, it was ‘difficult terrain’. Rescuers told AFP news agency how debris was scattered across the mountainside, and eyewitnesses said the plane “fell from the sky.” Images from Chinese media also showed the plane coming down at great speed.
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Hundreds of rescuers searched for survivors and wreckage after the crash. They could do nothing but salvage the bodies: no one had survived the accident. One aircraft component was found nearly ten kilometers from the crash site, suggesting it was already released into the air.
The recorder with the recordings from the cockpit and the flight data, the so-called black box, was also found by the recovery companies and then sent to the United States for analysis. “The plane did as instructed by someone in the cockpit,” the newspaper quoted a person familiar with as being familiar with the preliminary investigation results.
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The US investigators believe their conclusion is supported by the fact that Chinese investigators have so far reported no problems with the plane or with its controls that could have caused the crash and should be addressed, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plane that crashed was only a few years old. This type of aircraft is one of the most popular aircraft in the world.
It is one of the deadliest plane crashes in Chinese history. The deadliest plane crash in China happened in 1994 with a China Northwest Airlines aircraft. All 160 people on board were killed.
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