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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.

Trending in January

The following are the ten most read articles on EX-YU Aviation News throughout January according to accumulated statistics:

1. Air Serbia to take delivery of first ATR72-600
2. Air Serbia takes delivery of ATR72-600 and unveils new cabins

3. Lufthansa Group to suspend handful of EX-YU routes

4. Air Serbia unveils summer expansion

5. Air Serbia unveils three new routes

6. Croatia Airlines in talks with Boeing over MAX order
7. Air Serbia finalises summer expansion with three new routes
8. Air Serbia plans new routes, more flights and service upgrade

9. Air Serbia to launch Trieste and Bologna flights

10. Ryanair further expands Zagreb network with new route

The three most read trip reports in January:

1. Qatar Airways' 35-minute intra-European flight

2. Air Serbia’s first domestic flight

3. Turkish Airlines: Belgrade - Istanbul

The most popular vintage photo published in January:

JAT office in downtown Cairo, 1980s

The most visitors by country:

1. Serbia
2. Slovenia

3. Croatia

4. United States
5. Germany

6. United Kingdom
7. Macedonia

8. Bosnia and Herzegovina
9. Canada

10. Switzerland
11. Australia

12. Netherlands
13. Austria

14. Sweden
15. United Arab Emirates

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Anonymous09:30
This January would be so boring without JU, thanks guys for a real-time updates and great articles !!!
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Anonymous12:35
Hopefully we will see soon and Cairo flights again from Belgrade. Looking this JAT Cairo office remembering that JAT had a lot transfers from Cairo via Belgrade, back than, during 80's
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