Experts Confused by Crash of China’s Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735

A plane crash in China that is believed to have killed all 132 people onboard has baffled aviation experts, who expressed confusion in trying to explain how the Boeing 737 suddenly took a nosedive into the ground. The Eastern Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 was heading from Kunming to Guangzhou’s International Airport in China. Video footage that captured the crash appeared to show the plane taking a steep dive before crashing into a mountainous area. Flight records revealed the plane plunged more than 26,000 feet in the span of about 95 seconds, according to Flightradar24. “It’s very odd,” Jeff Guzzetti, the former accident investigation chief for the Federal Aviation Administration, told Bloomberg News of the crash. “It’s an odd profile,” noted aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot John Cox. “It’s hard to get the airplane to do this.” But former National Transportation Safety Board investigator Benjamin Berman told the outlet that it’s still too …

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