More than 24 hours after a China Eastern Airlines Boeing flight crashed with 132 people on board, authorities said they aren't much closer to understanding ...
The board added that representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and CFM will serve as technical advisors. No survivors have been found, and the Ministry of Public Security has closed off the crash site, Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at a press conference Tuesday night. - No survivors have been found, and the Ministry of Public Security has closed off the crash site, Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at a press conference Tuesday night.
Boeing was under fire previously for crashes, but it was the Boeing 737 Max that received some of the harshest criticism over safety concerns.
Brickhouse, a former student trainee at the National Transportation Safety Board, said one thing that caught his attention was the aircraft's sudden drop in altitude. He said the impact force of that happening is "tremendous," and there's no guarantee anything on the plane, including the black box, would survive. However, Verde said the planes "don't have any ongoing areas of concern" and have had long, safe track records, alluding to how many airline companies use them today. The Boeing 737 Max was heavily criticized after two international planes crashed in 2018 and 2019, resulting in 346 deaths. In total, the four major U. S. airlines have nearly 700 of the planes in their fleets. The aircraft that crashed was a Boeing 737-800.
(NewsNation) — China has grounded all of China Eastern's Boeing 737-800 fleet as crews search for the 132 victims in Monday's plane crash, ...
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The search for the flight data recorder of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet continued Friday, as authorities try to piece together what caused the ...
All 123 passengers and nine crew are presumed dead, making this China’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1994 if confirmed. More than 5,000 personnel have been working at the crash site, where parts of the aircraft have been retrieved, including the engine gearbox and some of the undercarriage on Friday. One piece of wreckage measuring 1.3 meters (4 feet) long was found over 6 miles away, suggesting the plane suffered at least some sort of breakup before impact.
The Chinese plane that crashed yesterday afternoon was considered one of the safest in the world, according to aviation experts. The Boeing 737-800 model, ...
The latter had all planes grounded worldwide in 2019 following two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The investigators will be looking into all aspects and it is too early to speculate about the cause of this crash.” For comparison, all models of the Airbus A300, another popular commercial aircraft, have a marginally higher crash rate of 0.46 crashes per million flights. At 29,000 feet (around 8,800 metres) and nearing their destination, the pilots would have been preparing for landing. Aviation experts are baffled by what could have happened to the jet, which was less than seven years old. Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched a major investigation to determine the cause of the crash.