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Latest reports indicate that the plane did not dive straight in from 30000 feet.
"Flight MU5735, which was travelling from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou in Guangdong province, crashed on Monday.
There were 132 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 jet. But no survivors were found even though rescue efforts were underway for nearly two days before rain suspended operations on Wednesday.
Data provided by Swedish air traffic monitoring service FlightRadar24 suggested that the plane was cruising at an altitude of 29,100ft when it went into a high-speed dive at 2.20.43pm on 21 March.
It lost altitude at a maximum rate of about 31,000ft per minute or 348 mph or 560km/h, the data suggested.
Twenty seconds into the dive, the rate of the plane’s descent to the ground slowed, and over the next 45 seconds, the jet levelled off at 7,425ft above the ground. It then began climbing.
The data suggests that 15 seconds later, when the plane was at 8,600 ft above the ground, the plane had another dive. And this time it was final."Last edited by Phillip Fields; 03-25-2022, 05:56 AM.
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Originally posted by Phillip Fields View PostLatest reports indicate that the plane did not dive straight in from 30000 feet.
"Flight MU5735, which was travelling from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou in Guangdong province, crashed on Monday.
There were 132 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 jet. But no survivors were found even though rescue efforts were underway for nearly two days before rain suspended operations on Wednesday.
Data provided by Swedish air traffic monitoring service FlightRadar24 suggested that the plane was cruising at an altitude of 29,100ft when it went into a high-speed dive at 2.20.43pm on 21 March.
It lost altitude at a maximum rate of about 31,000ft per minute or 348 mph or 560km/h, the data suggested.
Twenty seconds into the dive, the rate of the plane’s descent to the ground slowed, and over the next 45 seconds, the jet levelled off at 7,425ft above the ground. It then began climbing.
The data suggests that 15 seconds later, when the plane was at 8,600 ft above the ground, the plane had another dive. And this time it was final."
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Originally posted by IkemanTX View PostI’m a flight attendant at a major airline, and that was the first instinct of my captain the morning the video came out.
The issue is the video makes it look like the aircraft is intact, but to descend 30,000+ feet in 90 seconds you would be literally ripping control structures off. Not to mention maintaining a nose down dive at those airspeeds would be very hard to do.
Being a Chinese airline crashing within China, we will probably never know.
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Originally posted by kcnatural View PostChinese plane crash that killed 132 caused by intentional act: US officials
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/chinese-pl...195355700.html
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