Thread: Plane Carrying 133 Crashes In China, Causes Mountain Fire

Reports suggest it was a 737-800 (not a max) and that it fell from cruising altitude very quickly.

There won't be any survivors...

Troy, that's my understand also.

Originally Posted by Troy

it was a 737-800 (not a max) and that it fell from cruising altitude very quickly.

There won't be any survivors...

Awful……..

MU5735 (CES5735) 中国东方航空公司 Flight Tracking and History 21-Mar-2022 (KMG / ZPPP-CAN / ZGGG) - FlightAware

The plane had been cruising at an altitude 29,100 feet at 0620 GMT, according to FlightRadar24 data. Just over two minutes and 15 seconds later, the next available data showed it had descended to 9,075 feet. In another 20 seconds, its last tracked altitude was 3,225 feet.

Numerous reports that it went in nose first.

CFIT?

Seems to have dropped like a stone.

Assuming the loss of both engines, the glide path ratio of a 737-800 is about 3:1 glide ratio roughly. Depending on weight, temperature and other variables.

Meaning 3 metres forward for the loss of 1 metre in altitude.



Lot's more Tech here

If this is as described, it ain't 3:1.

^ Oh shit, assuming it's real ... that's suicide.

Holy cow. What besides suicide would cause that?

RiP to the poor souls.

Mind you the plane was only delivered in 2015, so unless it suffered some damage beforehand, unlikely to be a maintenance issue.

how strangely convenient that someone just happened to in the right spot filming an empty sky when a plane suddenly nosedives and crashes centre frame.

Apparently, that was caught on a CCTV camera located at a nearby mine.

aaah, the wobbling picture must be due to it being filmed off the cctv monitor on someones mobile phone.

Originally Posted by misskit

Holy cow. What besides suicide would cause that?

Several possibilities besides suicide but difficult to say at the moment. Personally, I don't think it was suicide.

It doesn't help that the 737 is ancient technology. Look at this checklist. Trim wheel, grasp and hold

http://www.b737.org.uk/images/runawaystab1987.jpg

Legit investigators are already casually mentioning murder suicide

China Eastern Plane Crash: MU5735 Nosedive Baffles Investigators - Bloomberg

Skiddy, you do the same on an A320, manual trim to override.

Now fuck off, there's a good chap.

Legit investigators haven't said anything and are unlikely to until their interim findings are published.

Holy cow. What besides suicide would cause that?

Durian.

Originally Posted by Troy

Skiddy, you do the same on an A320, manual trim to override.

Now fuck off, there's a good chap.

Legit investigators haven't said anything and are unlikely to until their interim findings are published.

The A320 isn't 60's tech but is 80's.

Its in the link I posted. Its poorly written. It looks like the editor fuct up actually.

Another crash that was similar occurred on Dec. 19, 1997, when a pilot on a Silk Air 737-300 carrying 104 people dove into a river in Indonesia, killing everyone aboard. It was falling at more than 38,000 feet per minute, according to that nation’s National Transportation Safety Committee.
Too Soon for Conclusions

A pilot most likely crashed that plane deliberately, the NTSB concluded. The plane’s cockpit and flight-data recorder systems were mysteriously shut off shortly, so detailed information about the trajectory of the dive weren’t available.

^^ The wheel was invented circa 4000bc. Does that mean it shouldn't be used because it's ancient technology?

Why bring up stab trim if you think it was a suicide pilot?

Dayum that vid.

Outstanding job by the pilots, solid 10/10 !!

Originally Posted by panama hat

It's just straight down . . . shouldn't it be 'twirling' or something? If that really is the plane then it doesn't look 'natural' as David said, there are glide options

Not without horizontal stabilisers there aren't, or if someone is pointing it straight in, Silk Air style.