"Hello, friends!" "21st March 2022, at 1:11 PM." "Flight MU-5735 took off from Kunming,
China." It was a 2-hour long normal
passenger flight to Guangzhou. A city in Southeast China. "But about an hour after taking off, at
2:20 PM," this plane started losing
altitude rapidly. It comes crashing
down. "Normally, if there's any
technical problem in a plane," or
if there's any problem with the engine. "for
such cases, aeroplanes are designed so that" they glide while descending. They'll come down at the speed of a few
thousand feet in a minute. "But
this aeroplane fell from a height of nearly 30,000 feet," within 1 minute 35 seconds. "Normally, this is the speed at which
skydivers descend out of a plane. "
"But here, a large passenger jet started falling vertically." "And in less than 2 minutes," it crashed into a hill. "When this aeroplane was in a
nose-dive," this scene was captured
on a camera from afar. "It is
clearly shown in this Blog
footage," that the plane was falling
vertically. It was in a nose-dive. How can this be possible?
The passengers of the
plane die. It is believed that this
crash is one of the worst aeroplane disasters in China. """Administration of China has
confirmed" that a China Eastern
Airlines plane "has crashed in the
south of the country.""" """It
appears to be descending at about" "10,000
feet per minute.""" So
this is well beyond what you would see in
the event of an emergency descent. "And,
so, something went rapidly wrong." We
don't know what. "One of the black
boxes was found in the wreckage of the Boeing jet.""" """There's no word yet on
whether anyone has survived or not.""" This plane crash has shocked air-crash
investigators and experts all around the world.
What can be the reason for this plane crashing this way? You can see the data from Flightradar24 on
this chart.
It shows the altitude of the plane during its flight. "Initially, the plane took off
normally." That's the slope you see
at the beginning. "Then it
maintained an altitude of 29,000 feet."
For about one hour and ten minutes.
"And then suddenly at 2:20 PM," the plane comes crashing down rapidly. But there's something strange in the chart. "At the altitude of about 8,000 feet,
while falling," it regains some
altitude before falling again. What can
be the reason behind this short ascent? It's
being said that any type of explanation can be possible. "It's possible that the engine of the
plane malfunctioned," "or the
plane suffered from a technical problem,"
"it's also possible that the pilot wanted to commit suicide," "or that there was a terrorist attack on
the plane," "or the pilots had
fainted," or even a weather-related
problem. "Presently, the search and
rescue teams" are trying to locate
the black box and crash recorders of the plane.
They're also trying to locate the people who were on the plane. There could be survivors. But we have the weather report during the
crash.
According to the China Meteorological Administration," "that day, at the place of the crash, at
2 in the afternoon," the
temperature of the place was around 30°C.
Moderate winds were blowing as normal.
It was forecasted that it would rain in the evening. It hadn't rained before the crash. And the visibility was more than 10 miles. So the weather conditions then weren't
unusual. The weather was absolutely
normal. The problem is that it is
raining heavily now so the search and
rescue teams are facing problems in
locating these black boxes. "Today,
on 23rd March, because of the rain,"
they had to temporarily stop the search operations. "Apart from this, the site of the crash
is surrounded by hills and a thick forest." Reaching there and looking for evidence isn't
easy. "Normally, the flight data
recorder and the voice data recorder,"
are built to be crash-proof. But
would they be intact after a crash like this?
It's a big question. The latest
update is that one of the two black
boxes has been found by these search
teams. "Though the box was damaged
from the outside," but the internal
records are said to be intact. This
black box has been sent to Beijing for further investigation. "So hopefully, we'll get more
information about the crash." Aviation
expert Neil Hansford says that the
chances of this crash being an accident are very low. "In his opinion, it is highly unlikely
that it was an accident." He cited
the example of Air France's flight 447. It
had crashed in 2009. There were
technical problems with that flight. And
the pilots were confused because of that.
"But when the plane crashed, it had descended slowly." "But in this crash in China," the plane fell like a rock from the sky. "If this crash was because of an
accident," it would have been an
unimaginable accident. Perhaps both
wings of the plane fell off. Or a
missile struck the plane. Or that the
plane collided with something in the air.
Only then would the plane have fallen so.
"If none of these events happened," then it's highly possible that it was done by
the pilot. Or by someone on the plane
that took over the control from the pilot.
"American Federal Aviation Investigator, Michael Daniel," believes the same. He says that this crash was most likely a
foul play. Someone did this
intentionally. He cited the examples of
two previous crashes. "Egypt Air
flight 990," flying from New York
to Cairo in 1999. Crashed into the
Atlantic Ocean. "And the SilkAir
flight 185," "that crashed
near Sumatra, Indonesia in 1997." These
two are rare examples when aeroplanes
took a nose-dive like this. "And in
both cases," the plane was
intentionally crashed by the pilot. Some
people are blaming the model of the plane.
"The two recent plane crashes around the world," "the 2018 plane crash in Indonesia,
" "and the Ethiopian plane
crash in 2019," the reason behind
both plane crashes was the technical
problems in the design of the plane. Both
plane crashes involved a specific model of plane. Boeing 737-MAX was an upgraded model of the Boeing 737-800. The newer model of the Boeing company. "For it, they claimed that they
increased the efficiency of the engine of the plane." "And to reduce the noise inside the
plane," they shifted the engine of
the plane a little to the front. At the
front of the wings. "But by
changing the position of the plane's engine," there were aerodynamic problems with the
plane. "Especially when the flight
conditions were unusual," and the
weather wasn't right. "To solve
this problem,"
Boeing had installed a special software Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation
System. MCAS. But this special software didn't work as
expected. "The two crashes in 2018
and 2019," were because of the
faulty sensor. "The MCAS got
activated by mistake," "due to
this incorrect activation, the nose of the plane dipped down." "A pilot from Boeing, criticised the
company," "saying that when
the new model 737-MAX was launched,"
the company had claimed that the pilots who had the certification "of flying the 737-800," "they'd have to undergo a minor computer
course," to be trained to fly
737-MAX. "But the training of
flying 737-MAX given to the pilots,"
was insufficient. "Later, it
was found that the Federal Aviation Administration of the US," "wasn't properly informed by Boeing,
about the new system." The MCAS. "Due to these reasons, in January
2021," the Department of Justice of
the US found that "Boeing had tried
to defraud the government of the USA,"
and so they would need to pay a fine of $2.5 billion. "But honestly, in the event we're
discussing today," this isn't one
of the reasons. "Because the plane
that crashed in China," was of the
737-800 model. Not 737-MAX.
The Boeing 737-800 model is being used for years. It's a reliable plane model. It is considered to be one of the safest
passenger jets. "After looking at
all explanations," the most likely
scenario here is that the pilot crashed
this plane intentionally. "And
thus, the biggest question is:" Why
did the pilot do so? Several conspiracy
theories have started emerging across Chinese social media. "In one of the most popular conspiracy
theories," America is actually
being blamed. "It's being said that
in the Russia-Ukraine conflict," "because
China did not take a clear stand against Russia," America caused this to happen in China. Chinese social media users are coming up with
these conspiracy theories. "I
talked about this in the Blog on MH 370
plane crash," "whenever
there's a big disaster," "without
a clear cut reason for it," "which
doesn't have a proper explanation,"
it results in many conspiracy theories being formed by the people. "And if after watching this Blog you're afraid of travelling in planes
again," because they keep crashing
frequently. You needn't be afraid. Don't worry.
"Statistically speaking, aeroplanes are one of the safest modes of
transportation."
"The most used
models of Boeing planes," "Boeing
737-600/700/800/900 plane models," "the
chances of them crashing," is at
0.07 crashes per million flights. "So
for every 1 million flights in the world,"
only 0.07 of them would result in a crash. The chance of a plane crash is so negligible. "Apart from this, the Airbus A300 model,
it's another popular model," its
chances are 0.46 per million flights. "And
for Airbus A310," it is at 1.35
crashes per million flights. "Obviously,
these statistics are from past records."
"It sees the number of flights a model has completed," and the number of crashes. "But in the recent plane crashes," "you would notice one thing," "it is either because of a technical
fault in the software," or it is a
deliberate action of the pilot. "Crashes
because of bad weather or hijacking,"
have little to no chance of happening. What do you think can be the reason here? Comment below. And let's meet in the next blog . Thank you very much!