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...
Participants of the press conference on the China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 aircraft accident observe a moment of silence in Wuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 26, 2022. All 132 people on board China Eastern Airlines' plane that crashed Monday in south China's Gu...
The national emergency response headquarters for the China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 aircraft accident on March 21 made the announcement after six days of all-out search and rescue efforts. "It is with great sadness that we here announce that the 123 passengers and nine crew members on boar...
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...
All 132 victims of the China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been identified through DNA testing, an official told a press briefing on Monday. After the accident, public security authorities across 20 provincial-level regio...
“Under the rules regarding crash investigations… only the investigating agency can comment on an open-air accident investigation.”Boeing spokesperson The three pilots on board were in completely good health, and they had no financial trouble. The aircraft involved in the incident was around 7 yea...
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...
According to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, a final report of a plane accident is encouraged to be published as soon as possible by the country that leads the investigation, within 12 months if possible. If...
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 A...