TUI Dreamliners to return to Pula

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China Eastern crash intentional

Flight data indicates a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March was intentionally put into a nose-dive. Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet, the reports say, citing a preliminary assessment by US officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it crashed. All 132 passengers and crew on board the plane died in the crash. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit", according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, citing a person familiar with US officials' preliminary assessment of the cause of the crash. Data from one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, which was recovered from the crash site, suggested that inputs to the controls pushed the plane into a near-vertical dive, the report said. China Eastern Airlines previously said the three pilots on board were qualified and in good health. The airline separately told the Wall Street Journal that there was no indication that any of the pilots was in financial trouble. Last month, the CAAC said reports that the plane may have been crashed deliberately had "gravely misled the public" and "interfered with accident investigation work". Investigators are still in the process of analysing flight data and the wreckage from the crash, Chinese state media outlet the Global Times reported. It also said the CAAC will continue to "carry out the accident investigation in a scientific, rigorous and orderly manner". The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal's report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization.

TUI Dreamliners to return to Pula

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TUI Airways will once again utilise its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to Pula this summer following a year-long hiatus. The wide-body aircraft will be used on the leisure airline’s flights from Manchester to the Croatian coastal city each Saturday from May 29 until October 9. A total of twenty flights are planed with the 345-seat aircraft, which features 63 seats in its Premium Club cabin and 282 in economy. TUI has used the jet on its Pula operations since 2018 but did not utilise the aircraft last year due to the pandemic. The airline has previously deployed the jet type to Dubrovnik as well, however, at this point, they have not been scheduled on services to the city this summer.

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Anonymous10:42
Croatia is probably the only country in SE Europe to be able to serve widebodies in more than 1 airport.
That said, them Dreamliners are returning to LCA and BOJ this summer too.
Bravo Hrvatska!
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