Nearly two months after the crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing that killed 132 people in southern China, the wall street journal reports that the aircraft responded to aircraft commands during its nose-down dive to the ground.
With our correspondent in Beijing, Stephane Lagarde
If the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has not denied the merits of the article in the American newspaper, the Chinese administration affirms that ” no relevant information about the investigation was given to no media “. This Wednesday, the keywords #WallStreetJournal and flight #MU5735 on the Weibo network, referred to nothing other than this official response taken up by censorship relays. No comments, no questions about whatsources familiar with the matter in the United States told the wall street journal.
“ The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit “said one of them, who would have had access to flight data. The two black boxes of the device were recovered almost a month ago. They were badly damaged in the crash, according to the Chinese authorities who for the moment have remained silent as to their contents.
What happened to cause the plane to suddenly plunge from its cruising altitude into forested hills in Teng County, southern Guangxi Province? No weather problems were reported that day on the route between Kunming in southwest China and Guangzhou in the southeast.
Healthy pilots
The preliminary report by CAAC investigators also states that the crew and air traffic control maintained normal communication until the aircraft entered the airspace of the arrival airport. No mechanical issues either.
From @WSJ: “Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a #China Eastern jet earlier this year, according to people familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident.” https://t.co/qDdVQ2ULZv
—William Yang (@WilliamYang120) May 18, 2022
According to information from wall street newspaper, the American persons in charge of the file would therefore have been interested in the pilots. However, two days after the tragedy, the airline had declared that the three pilots on board ” had full flight experience “, that they were in good health, that they had ” good behavior » ; the statement going so far as to specify that all had ” maintained harmonious relations with their family “.
Has a person broken into the cockpit, still wondering the sources of the wall street journal ? No emergency code was sent by the crew before the tragedy, the authorities pointed out during a post-accident press conference.