Posted on 03/27/2022 12:26:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
China's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) said they have identified 120 of the victims using DNA testing, including 114 passengers and six crew members.
Monday's crash of the Boeing 737-800 plane marks China's worst air disaster in more than a decade. Flight MU5735 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou with 123 passengers and nine crew members on board, when it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, the CAAC said in a statement.
The recovery of the flight data recorder, along with the cockpit voice recorder discovered on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis, should provide crucial clues to how the disaster unfolded.
China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, airline spokesperson Liu Xiaodong said on Thursday.
The grounded aircraft are undergoing safety inspection and maintenance to ensure that they are safe to fly, he said. The airline also launched a sweeping safety overhaul after the crash, he added.
The 737-800 is the most common version of Boeing's jets now in service, and it is the workhorse of many airlines' fleets.
There are 4,502 of the 737-800s now in service worldwide, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium, making it by far the most common Boeing (BA) aircraft in use today.
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Was there any doubt...straight down at 5-600 knots?
600mph to 0 in 25 feet. (25ft was how deep a Lockheed Electra augured in back in 1960 here in Indiana).
That a LOT of g’s.
Maybe someone who was supposed to be on the flight missed it and they were making sure that the passenger manifest matched the number of heads counted.
Correct. The FDR and CVR are put in the tail because they are more likely to survive an impact in the tail.
Bang Ding Ow
When UA flight 93 made a similar crash near here on 9/11/01, they had to settle for personal belongings and DNA fragments,
-PJ
Only in China they bury survivors. The old joke dose not apply. Yes it was suicide. You have to guide a descent that steep. The plane naturally wants to pull up and appears intact.
When I said “heads”, I was referring to the actual head count the flight attendants take after everyone is settled into their seats. The “official” manifest the airline had could have said 132, but someone could have missed the flight or someone on standby was allowed on at the last minute, altering the official manifest.
Or the Tibetan monks?
Our a “stray” missile test?
Or, pilot error?
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Back when the Lockheed Electra wings were coming off in flight, one of the crash reports said that the airplane was below the bottom of a 30 foot deep crater. The entire fuselage was compacted into a length of only 30 feet.
Original length was 104.5 feet.
This claim makes me think they are lying.
They are lying. They lie to make it look like China is uber competent, but this lie is so extreme, it just makes them look like they are lying.
They find bits and pieces. Sometimes there’s, say a wallet soaked in clear fluid. They bag the wallet and test the fluid, which is likely from the owner’s body.
So there wasn’t enough left of three to identify?
My guess: A misunderstanding between the Flight Management System and the human in the cockpit.
The speed that plane hit pointing straight to the ground, id say every person was compacted into 40’ round by 80 ft deep impact crater.
1- no survivors at crash site
2- number of fatalities are counted by
a- boarding passes scanned
b- quite frankly...there’s a reason it’s called a “head count”
Pardon the TMI
...that is all
Has happened before with the 737-800.
Especially around mountains, but not always (Houston).
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Don’t forget that Chinese citizens have to have permission to travel. Every citizen has a cellphone which monitors their location.
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