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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It takes an advanced degree in physics to know that a plane smashing into the ground at a 90 degree angle from 29,000 feet would kill every passenger.
Thanks for the explanation, JD. I obviously didn’t read the article (ashamed to say).
Straight down from 29,000+ feet is a long, long time to realize you’ll soon be dead.
I could “confirm” their deaths when I saw the plane hit the mountainside nearly vertical at warp 10. Stupid title.
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There was no one inside the 2nd black box. I heard a comedian ask, “the next time I fly, can they put ME in the black box?”
Yes, there is doubt. At that speed, there is a tremendous amount of lift on the wings. That lift would pull it out of a dive, unless there is a lot of force on the controls. If the airplane were coming directly toward the camera, it would still look like it was going straight down. It could have still been at a steep dive, but likely not straight down.
Thanks, this proves my point when you realize the distortion in the image. It’s 6 miles top-to-bottom, and hundreds of miles side-to-side.
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