Worst Air Disaster in China | Boeing 737 Plane Crash
March 21, 2022, at 1:11 p.m. Flight MU-5735 took off from Kunming, China. It was a 2 hour long normal passenger flight to Guangzhou city. A city in southeast China. But about an hour after takeoff, at 2:20 PM, this plane began to rapidly lose altitude. It falls down. Normally if there is some technical problem with the plane or if there is some problem with the engine. For such cases, planes are designed to glide when descending. It falls at a rate of several thousand feet per minute. But this plane fell from a height of almost 30,000 feet in 1 minute and 35 seconds. Normally, this is the speed at which skydivers descend from an aircraft. But here a large airliner began to fall vertically.
And in less than 2 minutes it hit the hill. When this plane was in the nose, this scene was captured on camera from a distance. In this picture it is clearly visible in the video footage that the plane was falling vertically. It was in a dive. How is it possible? Plane passengers die. The crash is believed to be one of China's worst aviation disasters." The China Administration has confirmed that a China Eastern Airlines plane crashed in the south of the country." “It appears to be descending at about 10,000 feet per minute. So that's way beyond what you would see in an emergency descent. so something quickly went wrong. We don't know what. One of the black boxes was found in the wreckage of the Boeing." "It is not yet known if anyone survived or not." This plane crash shocked the air - Crash investigators and experts from around the world. What could be the reason for this plane crash Data from Flightradar24 can be seen at this chart. It shows the altitude of the plane during the flight. At first the plane took off normally. That's the pitch you see at the beginning. Then it maintained an altitude of 29,000 feet. About one hour and ten minutes.
And then suddenly at 2:20 p.m. the plane crashes rapidly. But there is something strange on the map. what could be the cause of this short climb? They say the explanation could be anything. It is possible that the plane's engine failed or the plane had a technical problem, it is also possible that the pilot wanted to commit suicide, or that there was to a terrorist attack on the plane, or that the pilots passed out, or even a weather-related problem. Currently, search and rescue teams are trying to find the black box and the plane's crash recorders. They are also trying to find if di who were on the plane. They might survive. But we have a weather report during the crash. According to the China Meteorological Administration, the temperature at the crash site at 2:00 p.m. that day was around 30°C. The wind was light as usual. It was forecast to rain in the evening. There was no rain before the impact. And the visibility was more than 10 miles. So the weather conditions at that time were not unusual. The weather was perfectly normal. The problem is that it's raining heavily now, so search and rescue teams are having trouble locating these black boxes. Today, March 23, they had to temporarily stop the search due to rain. In addition, the crash site is surrounded by hills and dense forest. Getting there and looking for evidence is not easy. Under normal circumstances, the flight data recorder and voice data recorder are made to be shock resistant.
But they would be intact after the crash like It's a big question. The latest update is that these search teams have found one of the two black boxes. The box was damaged on the outside, but the records inside are said to be intact. This black box was sent to Beijing for further investigation. So hopefully we get more information about the crash. Aviation expert Neil Hansford says the chances of this accident being an accident are very low. In his opinion, it is highly unlikely that it was an accident. He gave the example of Air France Flight 447. It crashed in 2009. There were technical problems with that flight. And the pilots were confused about it. But when the plane crashed, it was descending slowly. But in this crash in China, the plane fell like a stone from the sky. If this crash happened because of an accident, it would be an unimaginable accident. The plane may have lost both wings. Or the plane was hit by a missile. Or that the plane collided with something in the air. Only then would the pl If none of these events happened, then it is highly likely that the pilot did it. Or someone on a plane who took over from the pilot. US Federal Aviation Investigator Michael Daniel believes the same. He says this crash was most likely foul play. Someone did it on purpose. He cited two previous crashes. Egypt Air Flight 990, flying from New York to Cairo in 1999. Crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. A SilkAir Flight 185 that crashed off Sumatra, Indonesia in 1997. These two are rare examples of aircraft nosediving like this. And in both cases the plane was deliberately crashed by the pilot. Some people blame the model of the plane. Two recent plane crashes around the world, the Indonesia plane crash in 2018 and the Ethiopian plane crash in 2019, the reason for both plane crashes were technical problems in the design of the aircraft. Both plane crashes involved a specific aircraft model. The Boeing 737-M AX was an upgraded model of the Boeing 737-800. Newer Boeing model. For him, they claimed to have increased the efficiency of the aircraft engine. And in order to reduce the noise inside the plane, they moved the engine of the plane a little forward. On the front of the wings. But by changing the position of the plane's engine, there were aerodynamic problems of the plane. Especially when there were unusual flight conditions and the weather was not right. to solve this problem, Boeing installed special software Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System. MCAS. However, this special software did not work as expected. Two crashes in 2018 and 2019 were caused by a faulty sensor. MCAS was activated by mistake, due to this incorrect activation the nose of the aircraft dropped. A Boeing pilot criticized the company, saying that when the new 737-MAX model was launched, the company claimed that pilots certified to fly the 737-800 should take a minor computer course to be trained to fly the 737-MAX. But pilot training in flying the 737-MAX was inadequate. It was later discovered that the US Federal Aviation Administration had not properly informed Boeing of the new system. MCAS.
For these reasons, in January 2021, the US Department of Justice found that Boeing had tried to defraud the US government, and so they would have to pay a fine of $2.5 billion. But honestly, in the case we are discussing today, that is not one of the reasons. Because the plane that crashed in China was a 737-800 model. Not the 737-MAX. The Boeing 737-800 model has been in use for years. It is a reliable model aircraft. It is considered one of the safest transport aircraft. After considering all the explanations, the most likely scenario is that the pilot crashed this aircraft on purpose. And so the biggest question is: Why did the pilot do this? Several conspiracy theories have started to appear on Chinese social media. In one of the most popular conspiracy theories, America is actually blamed. It is said that in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, because China did not take a clear stand against Russia, it caused America in China. Chinese social media users come w with these conspiracy theories. I talked about this in the MH 370 crash video, whenever there is a major disaster without a clear reason that doesn't have a proper explanation, it results in a lot of conspiracy theories, people. And if after watching this video you are afraid to travel on planes again because they still crash frequently. You don't have to worry. Do not worry. Statistically speaking, airplanes are one of the safest modes of transportation. The most used Boeing aircraft models, the Boeing 737-600/700/800/900 aircraft models, have an accident chance of 0.07 accidents per million flights. So for every 1 million flights in the world, only 0.07 of them would result in a crash. The probability of a plane crash is so negligible. In addition, the Airbus A300 model is another popular model, its chances are 0.46 per million flights. And for the Airbus A310, it is 1.35 accidents per million flights. Of course, these statistics come from past records. He sees the number of flights the model has completed and the number of crashes. But in the recent plane crashes you would notice one thing, it is either due to a technical glitch in the software or it is a deliberate action by the pilot. Crashes due to bad weather or hijacking have no chance of happening. What do you think could be the reason here?
