Two days after the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 plummeted to the ground, the desperate search for survivors and clues into the cause of the accident continues, theNew York Times reported. Boeing 737-800 took off from the city of Kunming in the Yunnan province for Guangzhao city in t...
Photo taken on March 27, 2022 shows a memorial event at the crash site of the China Eastern Airlines plane to mourn the deaths of the 132 people involved in the accident in Tengxian County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. At about 2 p.m., as the sound of horns blared ...
China Eastern Airlines uses the Boeing 737-800 as a workhorse of its fleet — the airline has more than 600 planes, and 109 are Boeing 737-800s. Chinese broadcaster CCTV said China Eastern set up nine teams to deal with aircraft disposal, accident investigation, family assistance and other p...
Sources told the Sina news agency that the carrier decided to ground its remaining 106 B737-800s immediately, pending further investigation into the causes of the accident. The group has also grounded forty-seven B737-800s operated by subsidiary China United Airlines and a further 70 opera...
The accident ended the national flight safety record of 11 years without a fatal accident on the Chinese mainland. Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the accident. The technical investigation team has carried out an on-...
China Eastern said in a statement that an emergency response mechanism has been activated with nine groups set up to take charge of the aircraft maintenance, accident investigation, family assistance, logistics, legal support, publi...
which departed from Kunming and was bound for Guangzhou, crashed into a mountainous area near the Molang village in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou at 2:38 p.m., causing a mountain fire, according to the department. The airline said the cause of the accident will be fully investigat...
China’s leader said he was shocked over the accident and ordered a search-and-rescue mission, the state broadcaster reported. China Eastern reposted a screenshot of the news reported by state media on its official account on Weibo, a social media platform, without further comment. The company...
NANNING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A memorial event was held Sunday at the crash site of the China Eastern Airlines plane to mourn the deaths of the 132 people involved in the accident. At about 2 p.m., as the sound of horns blared throughout a mountainous area in Tengxian County, south...
Goglia says the China Eastern accident appears “amazingly similar” to the EgyptAir and SilkAir crashes. But events involving such extreme descent rates do not always result from deliberate pilot action. Cox cites the rapid descent and crash in Indonesia in January 2007 of an Adam Ai...