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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 February

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

1. Air Serbia to maintain Russia flights for now amid demand surge *
2. Air Serbia plans second A330 and at least two new long haul routes

3. Air Cairo to launch five new EX-YU routes

4. Aegean to expand EX-YU operations, add three new routes

5. Lufthansa Group granted biggest share of Slovenian airline subsidies

6. Air Montenegro to launch three new routes
7. Air Serbia temporarily suspends three routes
8. Belgrade Airport set to open new facilities in biggest expansion to date

9. Ryanair rules out Ljubljana flights

10. Croatia Airlines considers return to former markets

* Most read this year

The three most read trip reports in February:

1. Lufthansa’s business class from Belgrade

2. Air Serbia: Niš - Tirana via Belgrade

3. Lauda Europe: Zagreb - Malaga - Zagreb

The most popular vintage photo published in February:

JAT ticket booking service, 1979

The most visitors by country:

1. Serbia
2. Slovenia

3. Croatia

4. United States
5. Germany

6. United Kingdom
7. Bosnia and Herzegovina

8. Macedonia
9. Canada

10. Switzerland
11. Australia

12. Netherlands
13. Montenegro

14. Sweden
15. Austria

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Anonymous16:49
Just noticed the picture of Tito on
The wall in the vintage pic :D
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