The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737800 NG crashed in the southern region of Guangxi on March 21, killing all 132 people on board, falling to the ground in an almost vertical position at nearly the speed of sound, the New York Times (NYT) reports. , which cites, among other things, the team of seven US investigators who arrived in China last Saturday to shed light on the final minutes of Flight 5735.
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The pilot’s yellow
The pilots didn’t send “Mayday” messages and the plane crashed over 20,000 feet (over 6,000 meters) to 7,400 feet in less than a minute, regained 1,200 feet in about 15 seconds and then crashed “Essentially in a 90 degree angle , writes the Nyt on the slope of a hill overgrown with bamboo canes and banana trees.
The impact
The impact on the ground was so great that the Boeing almost fell apart: at the end of last week’s searches, 49,117 parts of the plane were actually recovered, some at a depth of over 18 meters and others at a depth of over 11 km from the site. The plane had left Kunming in Yunnan Province and was en route to Canton in Guangdong Province when it crashed in Tengxian County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Both black boxes are decoded.