The strange crash of the Boeing 737 crashed in China: "The plane's data was extremely abnormal at the time of the crash"

• China A plane with 132 people on board crashes in southern China

China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 was en route from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to the port city of Guangzhou when it suddenly fell from cruising height.

On board were six members of a family on their way to a funeral;

a just married couple;

the executives of a mining company;

a grandmother with her granddaughter;

a group of doctors who were going to lend a hand in controlling the latest outbreak of coronavirus that is hitting some cities in southern China.

have been found among the 132 people

(123 passengers and 9 crew members) in the Boeing 737-800 that crashed in the mountains of the southern province of Guangxi on Monday.

The official list of passengers was 124. But at the Kunming airport, just before boarding, a lady was left on the ground because the health code of

the mobile application that has been used in China during the entire flight

pandemic.

The flight was in the air for 48 minutes.

It had been flying at almost 8,900 meters before slowing down and losing altitude at 2:19 p.m.

Three minutes later, when its height was recorded at about 1,300 meters, it disappeared from radar.

A video of the cameras of a mining basin captured the moment in which the plane plummeted,

Parts of the Boeing were strewn across fire-scorched mountainsides after China's first commercial airliner crash since 2010. Throughout Tuesday, rescue teams continued to search for survivors.

, including firefighters, soldiers and doctors.

According to state media reports, the plane went down in a mountain pass surrounded on three sides by lush forests.

There was only a small, cobbled, bushy path to get there, which made it difficult for large teams to enter.

"The plane fell vertically from the sky.

. The fire started after it fell into the mountain," a witness identified by his last name, Liu, told local television.

During the last hours, many aviation experts have agreed in their analysis that accidents during the cruise phase, when the plane flies straight and level, are very rare.

"The data from the plane was extremely abnormal at the time of the crash," said Wang Yanan of the Chinese Aeronautical Society.

"The plane fell rapidly

It can almost be understood that it completely lost its lift capacity and there is no way to maintain normal flight. The video circulating on the Internet of the fall further supports some of the our

," Wang said.

Boeing said last year that only 13% of fatal commercial accidents globally between 2011 and 2020 occurred during the cruise phase, while 28% occurred on final approach and 26% on landing.

Autopilot on cruise stage

"Usually the plane is on autopilot during the cruise stage. So it is very difficult to understand what happened. From a technical point of view, something like this should never have happened," a Chinese specialist tells Reuters. named Li Xiaojin.

"There's really only one thing that can get the aircraft to that descent vertical and keep it there, and that's elevator or stabilizer adjustment," says Juan Browne, a Boeing 777 pilot.

Waiting for the black box to be found and for the investigators to clarify the strange accident, in China the rain of speculation continues, even

tragedy (2015), when the co-pilot took advantage of the absence of the pilot main to crash the Airbus A320 in the French Alps killing 144 passengers.

There are precedents for accidents like the one that occurred on Monday in China, but with notable differences.

For example,

, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, fell much slower and more erratically after speed sensors froze.

In 2019, an

suddenly plunged into a swamp near Houston.

In that case, the copilot became disoriented and pointed the nose toward the ground.

In 1997,

carrying 104 people crashed the plane into a river

.

If Chinese authorities officially confirm the death of all passengers on board, the accident will be the deadliest in the Asian country since 1994, when 160 people died on a China Northwest Airlines flight that crashed in Xian after the plane crashed. break in the air.

What happened with the Boeing 737 came after a decade without accidents that has led China to position itself as one of the countries with the best aviation safety record in the world, operating without major accidents for 100 million hours, a world record.

During the last decades, accompanying the growth in all sectors of the country, in aviation a

was introduced , as well as executing stricter air controls after the succession of fatal accidents in the decade of the 90s .

A passenger plane was hijacked and crashed into two other planes on landing in Guangzhou in October 1990. 128 people were killed.

Two years later, a Russian Yak-42 crashed on takeoff from Nanjing in eastern China, killing 106 people.

That same year, 131 passengers died after crashing a Boeing 737 flying from Guangzhou to the tourist city of Guilin.

The

.

A plane chartered by Henan Airlines crashed in the city of Yichun.

44 of the 96 people on board died.

Following Monday's crash, state-owned China Eastern Airlines announced it would ground all of its 737-800 planes for the time being.

Headquartered in Shanghai, it is one of the largest airlines in Asia and the first Chinese to be listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

It has a fleet of 730 aircraft that travel to 170 countries, serving more than 130 million passengers each year.

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