[Internacional] Chinese airliner carrying 133 people crashes in southern China

A passenger plane with 132 people on board crashed in southern China on Monday, the authorities said.
There was no immediate word of any casualties from the China Eastern Airlines flight. State media said the flight was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

Rescue operations were under way after the Boeing 737-800 went down near Wuzhou in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, state broadcaster CCTV reported, adding that 588 firefighters were being sent to the scene to help local emergency services.

A local villager at the scene of the crash told online portal Jimu News that the plane has disintegrated and started a fire that had burned down trees and bamboo before local firefighters extinguished most of the blaze.

According to news portal Thepaper.cn, a staff member at Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport said flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou has not arrived at its destined time.

The flight was scheduled to take off from Kunming at 1.10pm and arrive at Guangzhou at 2.52 pm and is now marked “out of reach” on Baiyun airport’s app.

CCTV reported that safety checks will be conducted in the aviation sector while President Xi Jinping has activated an emergency mechanism to help the rescue efforts. The state council has also sent officials to the site to investigate.

The 737-800 model that crashed on Monday has a good safety record and is the predecessor of the 737 MAX model that has been grounded in China for more than three years after fatal crashes in Indonesia in 2918 and Ethiopia in 2019.

China’s worst ever domestic air disaster happened in 1994, according to the Aviation Safety Network, when a China Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 flying from Xian to Guangzhou crashed after takeoff, killing all 160 people on board.

The last domestic crash was in 2010, when a plane crashed in Yichun in Heilongjiang province, killing 42.
China’s airlines had recorded over 100 million continuous hours of safe flight as of February 19, according to Zhu Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration.

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Essa imagem foi retirada do episodio Silk Air Flight 185 da serie Mayday.

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Esta imagem é para se olhar com atenção.
Ele saiu de do FL290 para 7425ft sem reação, ai ele sobe para FL080 ( parece uma recuperação ) e novamente inicia uma descida, um pouco mais lenta a princípio e volta a descer com o nariz para baixo abruptamente.
Me dá a impressão de uma despressurização onde a trip desacordou e tentaram uma recuperação, mas ai a acft j´devia estar com danos estruturais e não teve mais como evitar.
Tripulação:
Havia três pilotos a bordo, comandante com 6000 horas, primeiro oficial (provavelmente checador) com 31000 e segundo oficial com 600.

Além disso, padrão da cia: todos os pilotos na China Eastern devem estar na cabine 20 minutos antes do início da descida.
Tinha um pessoal bem experiente lá na frente, a pane deve ter sido muito feia.

Eu tenho acreditado mais em interferencia ilicita por algum membro da tripulaçao.

Uma despressurizacao com pilotos desacordados faria o aviao voar no autopilot. A menos que eles desarcodaram sobre o manche, fazendo pressao suficiente no comando para desacoplar o AP.

Enfim, na especulaçao tudo é possivel.

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