According to a tweet from Flightradar24, approximately one hour into the flight, the aircraft was in cruise flight at 29,100 feet when it abruptly lost altitude, entering a steep descent. The aircraft appeared to recover briefly at approximately 8,000 feet, then it reentered dive.

Some sources claim the sudden nose-dive was intentional because of manual crew input, but to me it sounds like the crew reacted to something extremely strange happening and tried to correct it (“let’s click the AUTO button and get some rest. Oh shit.”), especially since the aircraft “appeared to recover briefly at approx. 8,000 feet”. Sounds a lot like all the other Boeing 737-x crashes where the pilots were surprised by the sudden nosedive, wrestled manual control back, only for the systems to kick in again into a dive.

I post this not as news, but as a point of interest for me personally.

  • Ann ArchyOPMEnglish
    -2•9 months ago

    You who are so wise to the hustle of aeronautics, what was the official reason for that crash? Was it suicide?

    “China Eastern plane crash likely intentional, US Reports say” https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61488976

    “The cause of the crash has not yet been determined but on Sunday recovery teams found the plane’s second so-called “black box,” according to state media outlet Xinhua” https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/26/china/china-eastern-airlines-crash-intl/index.html

    "The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal’s report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization.

    “Under the rules regarding crash investigations… only the investigating agency can comment on an open air accident investigation,” a Boeing spokesperson told the BBC on Wednesday. The company previously said it was assisting investigations in China and communicating with the NTSB."

    Well that explains that! No further questions your honor!

    Hey, what about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Was that a suicide too?

    “100% certainty MH370 crash was a murder-suicide” https://www.cbc.ca/news/mh370-flight-malaysian-airlines-crash-1.4665938

    Huh! Whadda ya know! Maybe we shouldn’t be looking into Boeing, we should be looking into mental health issues- the number one cause of gun related violence, and now also plane crashes!

    How fucking dumb have you got to be…

    Edit: “😠 no I will not argue I will smugly downvote and jerk off this fucker next to me”