News China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight #MU5735 crash

[dbeachy1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505880333966884874

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505864188245295112

 

[dbeachy1]

Flight profile:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505920249291587586

 

[Urwumpe]

The vertical rate looks too familiar....but this wasn't a MAX. Weird.

Catastrophic failure of the trim system?

 

[N_Molson]

Looks like they went straight down... Could be pilot suicide as well...

 

[supersonic71]

I have never seen a plane fall down like that. This was surreal. Hope there is a transparent investigation

 

[N_Molson]

I have never seen a plane fall down like that. This was surreal. Hope there is a transparent investigation

I'm pretty sure we'll know, because Boeing and the NTSB are obviously involved... now it will take time, as every investigation does. Not sure if the flight recorders will be of any use : those things are designed to take 50Gs, but maybe this case is even beyond that threshold...

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm pretty sure we'll know, because Boeing and the NTSB are obviously involved... now it will take time, as every investigation does. Not sure if the flight recorders will be of any use : those things are designed to take 50Gs, but maybe this case is even beyond that threshold...

Even after the pentagon attack, there was at least some data still readable on one of the recorders.

 

[N_Molson]

Even after the pentagon attack, there was at least some data still readable on one of the recorders.

Agreed, those things often prove to be extremely hard to destroy completely... we'll see.

 

[Urwumpe]

Agreed, those things often prove to be extremely hard to destroy completely... we'll see.

Its a morbid advantage if you can turn over 100 humans into mangled meat before the recorders have to deal with the remaining kinetic energy. But the other way around wouldn't save a single life, while the recorders save future lives.