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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 March

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

1. Air Serbia sees unprecedented Russia demand *
2. Air Serbia to reduce Russia operations over external pressure

3. EU: No means to stop Air Serbia flights to Russia

4. Air Serbia flight to Moscow forced to return after bomb threat

5. Air Serbia becomes key carrier for Russian transfers to Europe

6. Air Serbia to expand Airbus fleet
7. Ryanair tracking Slovenian and Serbian markets
8. Croatia Airlines to launch five new routes

9. Ryanair modifies Croatia operations

10. Air Serbia sustains further bomb threats as Russia flights continue

* Most read of all time

The three most read trip reports in March:

1. Austrian / Air Serbia: Belgrade - Larnaca via Vienna and back

2. Aegean Airlines: Athens - Belgrade

3. Qatar Airways to Belgrade on A330

The most popular vintage photo published in March:

Dubrovnik Airport, 1971

The most visitors by country:

1. Serbia
2. Slovenia

3. United States

4. Croatia
5. United Kingdom

6. Canada
7. Germany

8. Bosnia and Herzegovina
9. Switzerland

10. Macedonia
11. Netherlands

12. Australia
13. Sweden

14. Austria
15. United Arab Emirates

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Anonymous13:58
Strange Ukraine isn't in the list of most visited.
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