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List of civil aviation accidents in China in the past 40 years
A China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Company B737-89P flight from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi on the 21st, and 132 people on board were injured or killed. This is the first civil aviation accident in China since 2010.
Image of a MU5375 wing wreckage : Web Screenshot (CNS/AFP via Getty Images)
According to reports from Aviation Safety Network, CCAonline.cn and the CCP’s official media, the incidents of commercial airliner crashes in China over the past 40 years are as follows:
●On 24 August 2010, an Embraer E-190 passenger plane of Henan Airlines bound for Yichun, Heilongjiang, crashed due to poor visibility, killing 44 of the 96 people on board.
●On 21 November 2004, a China Eastern Airlines flight crashed shortly after taking off from Baotou Airport in Inner Mongolia, killing 55 people on board and on the ground.
●On 7 May 2002, a China Northern Airlines flight crashed off the coast of Dalian, Liaoning Province, killing all 112 people on board.
●On 22 June 2000, a Wuhan Airlines passenger plane was struck by lightning and crashed after an explosion in the air, killing all 42 people on board.
●On 24 February 1999, China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 flew from Chengdu to Wenzhou. The plane disintegrated in the air and crashed into a village near Wenzhou, killing all 61 people on board.
●On 8 May 1997, China Southern Airlines Flight 3456, a Boeing 737 passenger plane, crashed due to bad weather on its way from Chongqing to Shenzhen, killing 35 of the 74 people on board.
●On 6 June 1994, China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashed on its way from Xi'an to Guangzhou, killing all 160 people on board.
●On 13 November 1993, a China Northern Airlines flight bound for Urumqi crashed while preparing to land, killing 12 people on board.
●On 23 July 1993, a China Northwest Airlines flight at Yinchuan West Garden Airport suffered a mechanical failure and was unable to take off. The plane eventually overshot the runway and crashed into a nearby lake, killing 55 people on board.
●On 24 November 1992, a China Southern Airlines flight to Guilin crashed near the airport on approach, killing all 141 people on board.
●On 7 October 1988, a Shanxi Airlines flight crashed in Linfen, Shanxi, killing 46 people on board and on the ground.
●On 18 January 1988, a China Southwest Airlines flight crashed in Chongqing, Sichuan, killing all 108 people on board.
●On 18 January 1985, a CAAC airliner carrying 41 people crashed while landing at Jinan Airport, killing 38 people.
●On 26 April 1982, a CAAC airliner crashed in Guangxi, killing all 112 people on board.
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MU5375 passengers were "totally incinerated" on impact
Reporter : Elmira Tanatarova, Daily Mail
Chinese recovery teams were today picking through the debris of a crashed China Eastern jet after it inexplicably plummeted from the sky into a mountainside yesterday with 132 people on board.
The Chinese Boeing 737-800 smashed into a mountainside with no survivors, and rescue workers speculated that the fire resulting from the crash had 'totally incinerated' the passengers and their belongings, before causing damage to the surrounding forest.
China Eastern yesterday grounded all of its Boeing 737-800 aircraft after the incident, in which the plane suddenly nose-dived and plummeted 30,000ft in two minutes before slamming into the ground at 350mph.
The incident represents China's deadliest air crash in nearly three decades. The deadliest Chinese commercial flight accident was a China Northwest Airlines crash in 1994, which killed all 160 onboard.
News (3) to (6) / Reporter : Li Jinfeng / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/22/a103380087.html
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China Eastern Airlines plane crashes, some people change their tickets to avoid misfortune
Image : In the afternoon of 21 March 2022, a China Eastern flight carrying 132 people crashed in Guangxi. (Video Screenshot/NTD Synthesis)
After the crash of the China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Company passenger plane carrying 132 people, so far, the remains of the victims have not been found. In this air crash, one person's ticket was refunded the ticket and the other changed the ticket. The two of them were lucky to escape one after another, and someone changed the ticket to board the crashed flight.
In the morning of 22 March 2022, CCP media said that as of then, no missing persons had been found at the crash site of the passenger plane. Only the wreckage and debris of the passenger plane remain.
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The refunded passenger did not get on the China Eastern Airlines plane, but luckily escaped misfortune
Before the crash, someone was lucky enough to escape.
"Jimu News" reported on the 21st that Mr. Huang from Tengchong originally planned to board this flight to Guangzhou but was unable to board the flight due to weather.
Mr. Huang, 24, said that he had originally planned to fly from Tengchong to Kunming on the same day, and then took the same flight from Kunming to Guangzhou to work but on the 20th, he received a message that the first flight to be taken was cancelled due to the weather; and because he bought a connecting ticket, he could only refund his ticket.
The report also said that at night of the 20th, Mr. Huang posted the refund information on the Internet. He did not expect that many people mentioned him on the 21st, and he paid attention to the crash.
Mr. Huang himself also confirmed this through a video on his personal account. Netizens said, "If you don't die, you will have good luck."
On the same day, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, there were 132 people on the flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, which was one difference from the 133 people reported earlier in the day.
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Change the ticket to fly ahead of schedule and escape the catastrophe
In addition to Mr. Huang, another passenger also survived.
"Interface News" reported on the 21st that a businessman doing business on the border of Yunnan said that seven friends originally met to board flight MU5735 to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou to attend the memorial service but one of them arrived in Guangzhou ahead of schedule after changing his ticket, and the other six friends are on the flight.
The passenger who arrived in Guangzhou early said, "I am very sad." She said that the six people on the flight were all relatives and friends, one of whom was her sister.
The aforementioned businessman also stated that among the 6 passengers, one was a teenager in his 10s, 4 were women in his 40s, and the other was a man in his 30s; 5 of them were Shuangjiang Lahu, Lincang, Yunnan Province. A native of the Wa, Bulang and Dai Autonomous County, and one female is from Guizhou.
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Deliberately changed the ticket, unfortunately on the crashed plane
Before this air crash, some people also changed their tickets but unfortunately they were changed to the crashed flight.
"Beijing Youth Daily" reported on 21 March 2022 that Mr. Zhong's fiancee took the crashed flight.
Mr. Zhong said that he and his fiancée were in a long-distance relationship. They had been in love for 5 years, and the two had not seen each other for 4 months. Originally, the fiancée planned her trip on 22 March but because she missed Mr Zhong too much, and wanted to meet him on an early date, the two discussed and she changed her ticket and boarded the ill-fated MU5735.
News (7) to (8) / Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/22/a103380347.html
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MU5375 has a rare vertical fall at an altitude of 8 km
Image : Web Screenshot
At 2:20, the flight altitude was 8869.68 meters. At 2:22, the altitude plummeted to 1333.5 meters, and the flight immediately lost the ADS-B radar signal and lost contact with the ground.
VariFlight professionals told The Paper that the plane suddenly fell from a height of 8,869 m in a short period of time, completely beyond professional knowledge. Even if both engines of a passenger plane fail at the same time, it is impossible to fall at this speed, and the plane can fly a certain distance by gliding.
Wang Yanan, editor-in-chief of Aviation Knowledge, also told Red Star News, "If the aircraft's twin engines fail, the aircraft's attitude will not dive, but continue to glide forward, just like a car suddenly loses power, the car will continue to glide."
Wang Yanan stressed that if the plane suddenly fell down, this is a very abnormal phenomenon. The specific cause of the accident must be found in the black box to make a judgment.
After the crash, a surveillance video posted on the Internet showed a plane with its nose down and plummeting straight into the mountains and forests. From the picture, the plane does not appear to be disintegrating in the air. The entire fall process does not exceed 5 seconds.
Someone exclaimed in the video, "Whoops! Just fall down."
The Paper confirmed that the online video was captured by the surveillance of Wuzhou Beichen Mining Co., Ltd. An employee of the company said, "We have installed surveillance cameras on the mountain, and it is only about one kilometer away from the crash site."
He also said that at the time of the incident, he was working on the hilltop of the mining area, which was about three or four kilometers away from where the plane crashed. Suddenly I heard an explosion, "I thought someone was firing a salute on the hill next door. The explosion didn't last long. I didn't expect the plane to crash."
In addition, a witness at the scene confirmed to Red Star News that he saw the plane fell straight down without smoke or fire.
A former pilot who did not want to be named told Red Star News that from the video on the Internet, the crashed passenger plane fell almost vertically, the fuselage was not broken, and there was a high probability that the crashed passenger plane did not disintegrate in the air.
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No SOS code was issued before the plane crashed, sparking speculation
There is another doubt about the crash, which has sparked speculation. According to current online news, the international distress code "MAYDAY" was not issued before the plane crashed.
An industry insider in the mainland analyzed in the article "Ten Questions about China Eastern Airlines MU5735 Air Crash", why did not send an emergency code for MU5735 flight? This is a big question. Unless there is an explosion, a sudden disintegration, a complete power outage, and a communications failure, the crew generally has time at cruise altitude to issue an emergency code, or at least communicate with the ground. It is rather strange that the crashed plane neither hung up the emergency code nor answered the ground call.
According to the article, according to historical experience, there are two biggest possibilities for an aircraft to dive into the ground without warning: one is the pilot's suicide, and the other is disintegration in the air. But the strange thing is that the article was deleted soon after it was published, but it has been reprinted on overseas Chinese websites.
Another netizen who claimed to be a civil aviation pilot published an analysis article on the Chinese question-and-answer website "Zhihu" saying that there are two pilots in civil aviation aircraft. If flight MU5735 did not send out the MAYDAY call, it proved that the plane must have an accident in an instant. This happens when 2 drivers are in an accident at the same time.
The article stated that the most urgent thing at present is to find the flight recorder, also known as the "black box", which can be interpreted by the competent authorities, Boeing and China Eastern Airlines.
As of press time, it has been more than 24 hours since the plane crashed, but the official list of passengers on the plane has not been officially released, nor has the body of the victims been found. The cause of the plane crash is still under investigation.
News (9) to (12) / Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/23/a103381097.html
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China Eastern crash site is about half the size of a football field Official: The investigation is difficult
Image : On 21 March 2022, the wreckage of the plane found at the scene of the China Eastern Yunnan crash. (Video Screenshot)
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The crash area was about half the size of a football field, and the remains of the victims were found
At 9 o'clock on the evening of the 22nd, the investigation team of the China Eastern Airlines crash accident of the State Council of the Communist Party of China held a press conference in Wuzhou, Guangxi to report the progress of the investigation into the crash accident of China Eastern Airlines' Boeing 737 passenger plane.
Officials said that as of the early morning of the 22nd, no survivors had been found, and the CCP public security department had sealed off the scene. There were 132 people on the flight, including 123 passengers and 9 crew members, including 3 pilots, 5 flight attendants and 1 safety officer.
According to a CCTV report on the 22nd, an official from the Wuzhou Fire and Rescue Detachment said that his search and rescue team had not yet found survivors but saw relatively large fragments of wings and the remains of the victims.
Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Office of the CAAC, said at a press conference that the plane was severely damaged and the investigation was difficult.
According to CCTV news, the orchard terraces where the plane crashed were smashed into flat ground and puddles, thigh-thick bamboo torn down and some tree trunks were completely broken. The rescue core area is about half the size of a football field but the area where the wreckage of the plane was thrown is very large, and the wreckage of the plane was also found on the other side of the mountain. At present, the black box of the plane has not been found.
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Official: Multiple calls to the crew, no response
Zhu Tao introduced the details of the crashed flight at a press conference, saying that the flight took off from Kunming at 1.16 pm on 21 March, and entered the Guangzhou control area at a cruising altitude of 8,900 m at 2.17 pm.
At 2.20 pm, ground control personnel noticed that the plane had dropped sharply and called the crew several times but received no reply.
At 2.23 pm, the radar signal of the aircraft disappeared, and it was later verified that the aircraft crashed in Teng County, Wuzhou City, Guangxi.
After this air crash, there are two doubts that have attracted the attention of the industry. First, the plane fell almost vertically from an altitude of nearly 9,000 m. Industry insiders said that this situation is rare in history, and the specific cause cannot be determined. Second, the plane did not send out any distress signal before it crashed, which is very strange.
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China Eastern adjusts captain's salary immediately after air crash
Sun Shiying, chairman of China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Company, said at a press conference that the Boeing 737 involved in the accident was 6 years and 8 months old and met the airworthiness requirements before takeoff. The crew members are in good health and have complete flight experience.
According to "The Paper" report dated 22 March 2022, a number of people from China Eastern said that after the air crash, the airline made adjustments, requiring some models to increase the safety redundancy of the cockpit, and to adjust the annual salary of the captain of the team.
According to the report, China Eastern has stipulated that instructors must lead the team to achieve a three-person crew model with two senior captains and senior co-pilots or it is required to use a three-person crew of captain instructor + instructor + first co-pilot.
In addition, for long-haul flights, China Eastern requires the captain in charge to be present when taking off and landing. The cruise captain and the co-pilot must not be seated at the same time.
According to information posted online by civil aviation practitioners, the Chinese aviation industry has been hit hard by the CCP virus pandemic. Over two years, the vast majority of front-line pilots have seen their earnings drop by nearly 40 percent, with flight attendants seeing an even bigger drop. Many pilots are under pressure to repay their loans, the whole industry is fluctuating, and the safety situation is worrying.
After the crash, Li Hanming, an insider in the civil aviation industry interviewed by Caijing Magazine's "Traveling One Passenger", analyzed the cause of the air crash and pointed out that there is a possibility of the pilot committing suicide. The article was subsequently deleted by Sina.com.
China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Company passenger plane crash has entered the third day, no survivors have been found. Surveillance video posted on the Internet shows that the plane crashed vertically with its nose down.
According to a report from Chinanews.com, Li Chenbin, a network technician from Guangxi Mobile, rushed to the scene of the air crash to rescue the plane as soon as possible. He said that he saw that the entire plane had been dissipated, all debris, very scattered and scattered, and no survivors were seen.
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Chinese veterans signed to go to Ukraine to participate in the war, Yaita Akio revealed the inside story
Reporter : Liu Minghuan / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/22/a103380366.html / Image : Vietnam War veterans from Leizhou, Guangdong, China took to the streets to fight for their rights (left); retired navy cadres defended their rights, and Haizheng leaders came forward to shout fire (middle); veterans of the four major banks went to Beijing to petition (right). (The Epoch Times composite image)
Badiucao, a Chinese dissident cartoonist based in Australia, posted a photo of a document signed by a Chinese veteran's company on Twitter on the 19th. The document is titled "Changde, Hunan Province Voluntary War Veterans Go to the Russian-Ukrainian Frontline to Support Russia". There are 47 companies. Department, the content of the petition stated that Changde veterans who participated in the war voluntarily rushed to the frontline battlefield of Russia and Ukraine to participate in Russia's attack on Ukraine. attract public attention.
Many overseas netizens ridiculed them that they were "brainwashed", "unsure of right and wrong", and willing to "be cannon fodder".
Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of the Japanese media Sankei Shimbun and an expert on China, said that based on his experience in interviewing Vietnam War veterans in China for a long time on rights protection issues, this matter is not so simple, it should be one of their kind disguised rights hype.
He pointed out that the so-called "self-defense counterattack against Vietnam" launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 was actually a bit like the Russian invasion of Ukraine this time. The CCP invested more than 200,000 troops, but met fierce resistance from the Vietnamese military and civilians and suffered heavy losses.
He mentioned that after the war, the demobilized soldiers who participated in the war continued to protest over the years because the local government failed to fulfill the medical insurance, retirement subsidies, job placement and other benefits promised to them in the documents of the Central Government of the Communist Party of China. In Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangsu and other provinces, veterans' rights protection activities are on a relatively large scale. The veterans are divided into two groups: hard-line factions and moderate factions.
Akio Yaita believes that the veterans who submitted the petition this time should belong to the moderates. By writing the petition to gain popularity and sense of presence, they are actually putting pressure on the relevant departments in disguise.
He said that among them, the young are in their early 60s, they are old and sickly, and they have been out of the army for more than 40 years. Even in Ukraine, these veterans have reached the age where they can go abroad as refugees. Of course they know that even if there is no one in China, it is impossible to send them to the battlefield.
They wrote to the Changde National Defense Mobilization Committee and the Changde Veterans Affairs Bureau. You must know that the main job of the Veterans Affairs Bureau is to solve the welfare and treatment of their veterans, and it has no power to manage things on the battlefield.
Akio Yaita goes back, in fact, two years ago, these people also engaged in similar signing activities. At that time, the epidemic had just broken out, and these people immediately published a petition online, requesting to go to the front line of anti-epidemic services. Its purpose is nothing more than to remind the relevant departments: "Don't forget the existence of those of us, we are all united".
Akio Yaita is a Japanese journalist, writer, and commentator on current affairs. He is currently the director of the Taipei branch of the Sankei Shimbun. Originally from Japan, Yaita was born in Tianjin, China. He has in-depth research and observation on Chinese issues.
Akio Yaita emphasized that defending rights in China is too difficult, so many people have to package their demands in other ways and use the information between the lines to attract others' attention. There is a lot of news in China that cannot be read only on the surface, and there may be more routines and facts hidden behind it.
In this regard, some netizens said, "Chinese veterans who have not been taken care of, victims who have been improperly demolished, victims of unfair justice, these people are all waiting for an opportunity to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party's centralized government!"
According to reports, the issue of Chinese veterans' rights protection has existed for many years. According to statistics, there are more than 57 million retired soldiers in China, and the number is increasing at a rate of several hundred thousand each year (for example, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs said that in 2018, more than 80,000 military-turned-officers and more than 400,000 retired soldiers were resettled).
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Japan lifts epidemic prevention control without restrictions throughout the country
Editor : Lu Yongxin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/22/a103380208.html / Image : People pose for pictures in front of cherry blossoms in Tokyo's Ueno Park on 21 March 2022. (Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images)
Kyodo News reported that 18 places including Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi Prefecture have implemented "key measures such as preventing the spread of the virus" due to covid, requiring restaurants to close early and setting a maximum number of people for large-scale events.
This is the first time since 8 January 2022 that no area in Japan has implemented key epidemic prevention measures after a lapse of about two and a half months.
With the lifting of key epidemic prevention measures, the maximum number of people can be abolished for large-scale events under the premise of making safety plans. In principle, restaurants are no longer required to close early. However, some areas may continue to require activities to be limited or earlier depending on the local epidemic situation. closed.
Japan's TBS TV reported that the Japanese government proposed a new policy on the 11th at the Subcommittee on Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures. Even if the number of newly confirmed cases of the CCP virus increases slightly or remains high, as long as it is expected to reduce the utilization rate of dedicated hospital beds and the medical burden, the "prevention of the spread of the virus" can be lifted. and other key measures.”
At present, there are still some areas in Japan where the occupancy rate of hospital beds exceeds 50%.
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