A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 has crashed with 132 people on board, Chinese aviation authority says

CNBC ^ | 21 March 2022 | Karen Gilchrist

[GreenLanternCorps]

Air Disaters AKA Mayday in other parts of the English Speaking world.

That said, I'm sure the NTSB will be asked to support the Red Chinese investigators since this was a US built aircraft.

[mad_as_he$$]

Made me look:
https://www.boatingmag.com/when-to-use-mayday-pan-pan-or-securite/

[Wizdum]

737-800? Probably one of the most reliable aircraft produced by Boeing.
Maintenance, it always comes down to maintenance.

[2CAVTrooper]

That’s not a 737 in the picture.

That’s a DC-9 or MD-80.

[RummyChick]

Or kamikaze suicide mission. It would seem to me that the way this plane went straight down will leave few options as the cause and should be able to pin point the issue

[Bikkuri]

Yeah, I saw that. Maybe trying to destroy the black-box too? That was a serious nose dive.

[PghBaldy]

Wikipedia is good for things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines_Flight_5735

[PghBaldy]

That is NOT this crash, but a Texas crash in which all survived

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Houston_MD-87_crash

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10108673/Texas-miracle-21-people-aboard-small-plane-survive-crashes-bursts-flames.html

[WellyP]

The aircraft that is shown IS NOT A 737, it is a 727 or similar aircraft with twin mounted stern engines!

[ground_fog]

Last good plane Boeing made was the B-757/767..everything since then is garbage. Garbage company now, went woke. These planes Boeing makes now are tin cans in the sky.

[PghBaldy]

Video of it going straight down https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1505874906118070274

[VTenigma]

I don’t know what that picture is but it’s not a 737.

[VTenigma]

That seems deliberate to me. Certainly not the profile of an MCAS failure.

[PghBaldy]

See links at post 48.

[VTenigma]

Not if the Flight Data Recorders are destroyed. Which by the photos may be a real possibility.

[sunny bonobo]

That photo is a fraud. The plane dove nose first into the ground.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I flew on a China Southern 737-800 from Singapore to Guangzhou in May, 2019 and the wings flexed so much I thought they were about to snap off on final approach. I swear the plane even looked rusty.

Chinese airlines seem to focus their maintenance dollars on the larger aircraft used for trans-Pacific and European flights.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Make that May, 2018 - the years are getting blurry.

[chaosagent]

Not a 727 either. 727’s have 3 engines in the tail, not 2.

[pfflier]

That is not a 737. The picture of the fuselage shows rear mounted engines and at “T” tail.