Monday’s plane crash in China has surprised even the experts. A China Eastern Airlines plane was taking off on a normal route to Guangzhou when it suddenly dived straight down from an altitude of 29,000 feet and crashed into the hills.
This is the worst plane crash in China’s aviation industry in more than a decade. Of all the 132 people on board the plane, no one has been traced yet and all are feared dead in the accident.
According to some experienced experts investigating the plane crash, the plane was at an altitude of 29,000 feet at the time of the crash, which is the normal altitude for flight. The incidence of an aircraft crash by a sudden dive below this normal altitude is very low and when it comes to Boeing 737-800 aircraft, this figure is reduced further.
John Cox, aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot, said: “This is a completely different incident. It is very difficult to understand how this happened to the airplane.”
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Investigators are trying to find answers to these questions.
Investigators are trying to find the plane’s recorder and get evidence as to why the plane made a sudden and direct dive. This has rarely been seen in any previous plane crash. He is trying to find answers to the question whether the plane hit something in the air, did the pilot make an emergency call. At the same time, they are also trying to find out from the debris whether there were any problems before the plane took off.
The plane came down at a speed of 30,000 feet per minute
According to Flightradar24, China Eastern Flight MU5735 was at an altitude of about 29,000 feet at the time of the accident. As the airport approaches, the pilots start lowering the plane’s altitude by a few feet every minute before the plane is about to land, which does not cause any shock to the passengers. However, Flight MU5735 instead began a straight-down dive at 30,000 feet per minute. According to Flightradar24, the plane hit the hills after coming down about 26,000 feet in about 1 minute 35 seconds.
The plane stopped for 10 seconds before falling
According to the data, the fall of the plane stopped for about 10 seconds and it went up for a few seconds. However, after that it again came down rapidly and became a victim of an accident. This has taken all the experts by surprise. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered an inquiry into the accident.
What could be the reason for the plane crash?
Some experts, citing the old plane accident, said that it is possible that the pilot suffered a heart attack in the middle of the flight. Or it may also be possible that the pilot himself has caused this accident, as has been seen in some cases in the past. Some are also fearing that the plane’s motor is defective. However, most experts say that this cannot be the reason for this accident.
Experts are most puzzled by the question that the Boeing 737-800 planes are designed in such a way that they do not fall so suddenly. This simply means that there is some other big reason behind the plane falling like this, which is not yet known.
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