News Forum - No survivors in China Eastern Boeing 737 crash carrying 132 people – State media

[Thaiger]

Rescuers searching the wreckage of the China Eastern Airlines passenger jet say there are no survivors. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft carrying 132 people crashed into a mountainside in southern China’s Guangxi region after a sudden nosedive. Rescuers are searching a deep pit in the mountainside to find the plane’s black box, which holds flight data and voice recordings from the cockpit, to investigate the crash and determine the cause. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered an “all out” investigation. Officials from the Civil Aviation Administration of China and China Eastern have been sent to the crash site. The U.S. National […]

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[Pinetree]

What must be baffling to the investigators is why there appears not to have been a mid air break up, which would be evidenced by a wide debris field.  From that high, there must have been some control that avoided over stressing the aircraft.  There may be some connection with the Qantas 32 incident, major wing damage resulting from an uncontained engine explosion. Its all very odd. 

[HiuMak]

RIP

[WR2]

1 hour ago, Pinetree said:

What must be baffling to the investigators is why there appears not to have been a mid air break up, which would be evidenced by a wide debris field.  From that high, there must have been some control that avoided over stressing the aircraft.  There may be some connection with the Qantas 32 incident, major wing damage resulting from an uncontained engine explosion. Its all very odd. 

If you saw the CCTV footage, you'd see that fuselage was intact and pointing almost exactly nose down straight into the ground.  If lost a control surface or wing the plane would have fallen erratically down. This seems like an intentional act by a pilot.

[Pinetree]

2 minutes ago, WR2 said:

If you saw the CCTV footage, you'd see that fuselage was intact and pointing almost exactly nose down straight into the ground.  If lost a control surface or wing the plane would have fallen erratically down. This seems like an intentional act by a pilot.

It looks to me like a fake video.  To attribute this accident to pilot error,  on no evidence whatsoever is ridiculous.  

[francoa]

The plane went pretty much straight down…it was either suicidal pilot or absolute 0.0000000000001% of crazy failure.