U. S. Researchers USA Someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern flight that suddenly fell to the ground in southern China in March, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Boeing 737-800 heading from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21 when it fell from its cruising altitude of 29,000 feet on the mountainside, killing the other 132 people on board. This is the worst air crisis in mainland China in nearly 30 years. .
Flight knowledge recorders recovered from the crash site were sent to the United States to investigate and show that, perhaps a pilot or someone who had forcibly entered the cockpit, gave the order to send the aircraft into a tailspin.
The pilots did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers and near the planes the immediate descent, the government said. A source told Reuters news firm that investigators were investigating whether the crash was a “voluntary” act.
Screenshots of the Wall Street Journal article appear to have been censored on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, and messaging app Wechat on Wednesday morning.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on April 11, in reaction to rumors about a planned crash, that the hypothesis had “seriously misled the public” and “interfered with the accident investigation work. “
Boeing and the NTSB declined to comment on the news agencies and referred questions to Chinese regulators. China Eastern did not respond to requests for comment.
According to a Boeing report, investigators discovered “nothing abnormal,” the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said in April.
In a statement, the CAAC said staff met protection needs before takeoff, that the aircraft was carrying no harmful elements and that it did not appear to have had bad weather. The firm said a full investigation could take two years or more.
Deliberate collisions are exceptionally rare.
Experts said the latest speculations left open whether the action came from a pilot who acted alone or was the result of a scuffle or an intrusion, but resources put pressure that nothing had been confirmed.
In March 2015, a Germanwings co-pilot intentionally flew an Airbus A320 into a French mountain, killing the other 150 people on board.