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Was The China Eastern Airlines Disaster A Case Of ‘Suicide By Plane’?
I’ve never seen anything like the video of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 diving straight into the ground at 31,000 feet per minute.
As an expert said this morning on CNN, “Planes don’t crash like that.”
It’s clear from both the video and eyewitness accounts that the plane wasn’t exhibiting obvious signs of engine trouble such as smoke or flames. One minute it was cruising at an altitude of 29,100 feet, and the next, it nosed straight down towards the earth.
The cockpit crew failed to respond to repeated efforts by air-traffic controllers to make contact after they were alerted to the sudden drop in altitude. Two minutes into the dive, the aircraft stopped transmitting flight data.
And then suddenly, at around 7,425 feet, the plane leveled off and it managed to gain 1,200 feet in altitude before again nose diving.
The Boeing 737 and all 132 passengers and crew essentially evaporated when it hit the side of a mountain in southern China’s Guangxi region.
