According to a tweet from Flightradar24, approximately one hour into the flight, the aircraft was in cruise flight at 29,100 feet when it abruptly lost altitude, entering a steep descent. The aircraft appeared to recover briefly at approximately 8,000 feet, then it reentered dive.

Some sources claim the sudden nose-dive was intentional because of manual crew input, but to me it sounds like the crew reacted to something extremely strange happening and tried to correct it (“let’s click the AUTO button and get some rest. Oh shit.”), especially since the aircraft “appeared to recover briefly at approx. 8,000 feet”. Sounds a lot like all the other Boeing 737-x crashes where the pilots were surprised by the sudden nosedive, wrestled manual control back, only for the systems to kick in again into a dive.

I post this not as news, but as a point of interest for me personally.

  • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Yes it crashed for completely unrelated reasons because it was a completely different plane.

    If you had any idea how airplane engineering, and airworthiness certifications occurred you wouldn’t even ask those questions. All they do is betray your ignorance of the situation. What part of MCAS and not being installed on that plane, never being installed on that plane, and being impossible to install on that plane is unclear?

    You are literally making shit up and looking stupid doing it.

      • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah I know. This is their own community where they are the only mod. I am assuming because they have lots of bans. I am a little surprised they haven’t banned me yet. I’m mostly replying to them in hopes other people won’t get sucked in.

        • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          Lemmy has got me seriously scared, you’re a bunch of absolute muppets.

          Edit: This is literally anythinggoes, nobody gets banned for speaking their mind here.

            • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              13·
              8 months ago

              Well maybe you could leave if you don’t like it, it’s not like I invited you here you absolute mongoloid. Are you all teenagers in here? Does your mom know you’re on the internet?

              • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                You did invite me, you posted publicly on a public forum. As a member of the public I found it pretty inviting.

                It’s not my fault that you are saying verifiably untrue statement. That you don’t understand statistics or engineering. Or when this is pointed out to you all you have left is petty insults and anger.

                Remember freedom of speech does not mean freedom from being told you are wrong.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      You who are so wise to the hustle of aeronautics, what was the official reason for that crash? Was it suicide?

      “China Eastern plane crash likely intentional, US Reports say” https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61488976

      “The cause of the crash has not yet been determined but on Sunday recovery teams found the plane’s second so-called “black box,” according to state media outlet Xinhua” https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/26/china/china-eastern-airlines-crash-intl/index.html

      "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.

      “Under the rules regarding crash investigations… only the investigating agency can comment on an open air accident investigation,” a Boeing spokesperson told the BBC on Wednesday. The company previously said it was assisting investigations in China and communicating with the NTSB."

      Well that explains that! No further questions your honor!

      Hey, what about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Was that a suicide too?

      “100% certainty MH370 crash was a murder-suicide” https://www.cbc.ca/news/mh370-flight-malaysian-airlines-crash-1.4665938

      Huh! Whadda ya know! Maybe we shouldn’t be looking into Boeing, we should be looking into mental health issues- the number one cause of gun related violence, and now also plane crashes!

      How fucking dumb have you got to be…

      Edit: “😠 no I will not argue I will smugly downvote and jerk off this fucker next to me”