BEIJING A Boeing 737 of the China Eastern Airlines With 123 passengers and 9 crew members, it crashed in the mountains of southern China Wuzhouin the autonomous region of guangxi.
China Eastern Airlines confirmed the incident on social networks in the early Italian afternoon with the number of people on board. The company expressed “condolences to the passengers and crew who fell victim to the plane crash”. At flight MU5735, According to local media, citing sources from the same company, there were no foreign travelers.
The impact was in Molang Village, Tengxian County, Wuzhou City. Almost a thousand firefighters mobilized. Shortly after the accident, China Eastern Airlines’ website appeared in black and white as a sign of grief. The airline said it has retired its entire fleet of 737800: China Eastern has 109.
According to FlightRadar24, at 2:20 p.m. the flight was at an altitude of 29,100 feet. A little over two minutes and 15 seconds later, data showed it had descended to 9,075 feet. Another 20 seconds later it had descended to 3,225 feet.
This shocking video by #MU5735 The crash, which has been confirmed as authentic, was recorded by the surveillance cameras of a mining company in Teng County, near Wuzhou, about 6 km from where the plane crashed. pic.twitter.com/IzcsFgwFfH
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The Chinese aviation industry’s safety record has been among the best in the world for the past decade. The worst accident in the Chinese sky occurred in 1994 when a Tupolev Tu154 crashed from Xian to Canton with 160 people on board.
Rescuers search for survivors. “A rescue team is currently approaching,” reports Chinese state television. “The situation of the victims remains unclear”. According to preliminary information, Flight MU5735, a Boeing 737800 that has been in service for almost six and a half years, took off from Kunming, Yunnan at 1:15 p.m. (local time) with the destination Canton, where it was scheduled to arrive on 15.07.
The plane crashed in the middle of the trip in China
Based on FlightRadar24 data, the accident happened at 2:22 p.m. local time (7:22 a.m. in Italy). “The plane lost contact when it was over the city of Wuzhou,” CAAC, the national civil aviation authority, said in a brief statement, confirming news of the crash. According to the latest findings of the tabloid Global Times, the plane was traveling at a cruising speed of 845 km/h and an altitude of 8,000 869 meters and “suddenly crashed”, causing the loss of the radar signal at 14.11 (21.7. am in Italy). The videos show him falling vertically, in the final moments he was traveling at 9,400 meters per minute. The first calls to the police came in at 2:30 p.m.
“We sent 25 fire trucks and 117 firefighters to the scene, but since the crash site is too far away and in a mountain area that is difficult to access, the fire trucks could not reach the plane, the firefighters boarded on foot,” a firefighter tells CCTV. Television. Local media quoted a rescue official reporting how the plane completely disintegrated. A fire started by the crash burned the surrounding bamboo and trees.
There had not been a plane crash like this in China for twelve years. Most recently in 2010, when 44 of the 96 people on board a Henan Airlines plane died when the plane crashed at Yichun Airport in Heilongjiang Province.
the chinese president, Xi JinpingHe was “shocked” and ordered “every effort” to organize searches and relief efforts. The State Council of the Chinese government has appointed a group of senior officials to coordinate the work and find out the cause of the accident “as soon as possible,” state broadcaster China Central Television said. The President of the Republic Sergio MattarellaXi conveyed his condolences: “It is with great sadness that I learned the news of the crash of East Flight 5735 in the mountains of Guangxi, China, which was supposed to fly to Canton, and sympathetic condolences from all Italians and my personal “.[[ge:replocali:repubblica:342238212]]
The certificates
“The cause of the plane crash has yet to be determined and the company will actively participate in the investigation,” the airline said in the evening. “The reason for the accident could be lightning or mechanical failure,” a pilot told Caijing magazine. “I heard a loud explosion and immediately rushed my motorcycle to the crash site with three other villagers,” a Molang resident told the China News Agency. “When we got there there was no sign of people. Only debris and clothes were hanging from branches.
Another local newspaper, Jiemian News, was told about a woman who just happened not to be on that plane. “I had to change my ticket at the last moment and when the accident happened I had already arrived in Canton. But on this flight are relatives and friends including my sister. We had to go to a funeral here the day after tomorrow.” Among the other victims, according to initial reports by Chinese media, are some executives at a mining company in Canton; a 22yearold girl who married just five months ago; and a 36yearold woman.
The Boeing of Tragedy
The plane wasn’t that Series 737 max, which was blocked after the incidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019, is not yet operational in China. The Chinese aviation authority approved the return of the 737Max last December, but airlines are still testing, so there are currently no 737 Max in service in mainland China.
Meanwhile, China is developing its own alternative to the 737. It’s the C919, which is being built by a stateowned company in Shanghai. China Eastern will become the first Chinese company to fly the C919 in the coming months.
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As for the two Max plane crashes, the US Congress’s final report nailed Boeing: The two crashes in less than five months “were the horrifying culmination of a series of incorrect technical assumptions made by Boeing’s engineering management of the American giant and a serious one.” insufficient oversight by the FAA, “says the commission’s dossier. The same for which Boeing has also scaled back testing and shortened pilot training to catch up with the Airbus A320neo. Since January 2020, production of the 737 Max has been on hold for 20 months.
Boeing stock is losing ground in the stock market
Following news of the crash, shares of China Eastern Airlines one of China’s three major airlines with headquarters in Shanghai, dozens of domestic and international routes serving 248 destinations plunged 6.5% on Wall Street. Boeing’s lost more than four percentage points. The American manufacturer was in the final stages of returning its 737 Max to China for the first time in three years.