air crash investigator and 737 pilot, Benjamin Berman, told Bloomberg it was too early to draw conclusions about what led to the MU5735 crash.īut he noted the aircraft's final steep trajectory was unusual, because - like other passenger jets - it's designed so that it won't typically dive at steep angles. The cause of that crash was ruled to be extreme flight-control inputs "most likely by the captain," although the inquiry found "no concrete evidence" to support allegations that he did it deliberately.Ī former U.S. While Guzzetti cautioned that the Flightradar24 data is preliminary, he noted that MU5735's relatively straight final trajectory and the fact that its transponders were still broadcasting suggests it didn't break up in-flight - a consequence of some terrorist bombings.Īnother previous air crash that appears to have such a trajectory in its final moments was SilkAir flight 185, which crashed in Indonesia in 1997.Īn Indonesian inquiry found that the SilkAir jet fell in a vertical dive from its cruising altitude of more than 38,000 feet (11,580 m) per minute, resulting in a crash that killed all 104 people on board. The tracking data reveals the jet seems to have halted its dive after about 10 seconds and climbed briefly, but it soon resumed its fatal plunge.Īs well as the flight tracking data, a surveillance video from a mining site in the region seems to show the aircraft in its final moments, in a steep dive directly toward the ground.Īn excavator opens a path to the China Eastern Airlines plane crash site in Tengxian County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 22, 2022. The FAA said he did it on purpose 01:05 See airline. Fatal plungeįlight MU5735 began plunging toward the ground when it was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from its destination - about the point where it would normally begin its descent for landing.īut instead of a gradual descent of a few thousand feet per minute, the jet began falling at more than 30,000 feet (9,140 meters) per minute, according to tracking data from Flightradar24. News China Eastern plane carrying 132 crashes in Guangxi province Number of casualties still unknown as President Xi orders probe into the crash of flight MU5735 in Guangxi province. 01:42 Hear CEO admit Boeing 'probably shouldn't have' made Air Force One deal with Trump 01:21 Watch: A YouTuber crashed his plane. The weather at the time was partly cloudy with good visibility. The jet had taken off about an hour earlier from the southern city of Kunming, bound for the city of Guangzhou near Hong Kong. The jet burst into a fireball upon impact on Monday (March 21) at about 2.20 p.m.
Air traffic controllers reportedly tried to contact the jet's pilots by radio several times before its final impact, but received no response.
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