China plane crash

2022 - 3 - 21

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Witness describes moment plane crashed in Guangxi province – live (unknown)

The Boeing 737-800 aeroplane model had an “excellent safety record” according to the Flight Safety Foundation (FSH). The plane has been flying since 1998 and ...

Rescue teams are scouring the slopes and hope to find the plane’s black box, which could help experts determine the cause of the crash. It is one of the country’s worst air disasters in years. Rescuers continue to search the wreckage of the China Eastern plane, which plummeted into hills in Guangxi province and exploded in flames yesterday afternoon.

‘Grim’ search as rescue teams comb hillside (unknown)

Rescuers in China are scouring heavily forested slopes in southern China where a China Eastern Airlines crashed and exploded in flames, as state media ...

At Guangzhou airport, staff in full personal protective equipment held up signs to direct distraught relatives to a waiting area marked by high black screens emblazoned with the word “emergency” and guarded by officials and police. “When we heard the news… Rain is forecast for the area this week. Local villagers also rushed to help after seeing the flames. “Although I was far away, I could still see that it was a plane. Other outlets reported that the burned remains of identity cards, purses, and wallets had been seen.

UPDATE: No survivors found in China Eastern plane crash (unknown)

The Boeing 737-800 crashed near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region while flying from Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan to the industrial ...

The U. S. National Transportation Safety Board said a senior investigator was chosen to help with the crash investigation. Before Monday, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred in August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines hit the ground short of the runway in the northeastern city of Yichun and caught fire. Aviation experts said it is unusual to ground an entire fleet of planes unless there is evidence of a problem with the model. “There are thousands of them around the world. The plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said. Police and security guards at an airline office near the airport ordered journalists to leave.

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Pilots of doomed Chinese plane that crashed didn't respond to calls (Hindustan Times)

China plane crash: The Boeing 737-800 was knifing through the air at more than 640 miles per hour. | World News.

"Bribes worth three crore were paid to the Punjab CM secretariat for every transfer and posting in the province," Khan said. "Our investigation found that he was involved in the incident," he added. Flight MU5735 was travelling from Kunming to Guangzhou when it plunged from cruising altitude. The jet was traveling at close to the speed of sound just before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of data. The pilots of the doomed China Eastern Airlines flight failed to respond to calls from air-traffic controllers after tipping into a deadly nosedive. "It was coming down steep."

Probe widens into mysterious plane crash in southern China (ABC News)

None of the 123 passengers and nine crew members aboard Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 survived when it crashed into the mountains in the Guangxi region of ...

"The NTSB is in contact with the CAAC investigator-in-charge and we will support their investigation with our technical advisors from the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and CFM in all ways necessary," the NTSB said in a statement. The plane's black boxes haven't been recovered. Members of the U.S. National Safety Transportation Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and engine-maker CFM International are all joining the probe.

No survivors found 'as of now' among wreckage of China plane crash (New York Post)

Rescuers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside have still not found any sign of survivors from the China Eastern plane that mysteriously fell from the sky ...

Monday’s crash also has implications for airplane manufacturer Boeing, which saw its 737 Max model grounded for nearly two years after crashes in 2018 and 2019. He added that the aircraft did not respond to repeated calls from air controllers during its rapid descent. No foreigners were on the plane, according to an initial analysis by China’s Foreign Ministry. “The thoughts of all of us at Boeing are with the passengers and crew members … as well as their families and loves ones,” Calhoun wrote in a message to Boeing employees. The crash is the first major airline disaster for China in a decade after the country pushed to improve its safety protocols since the turn of the century. “As of now, the rescue has yet to find survivors,” a grim-faced Zhu Tao, director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the Civil Aviation Authority of China, told a news conference.