A Chinese jet’s flight controls were still being moved during its final dive and both engine fuel switches were moved to the cutoff position before the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed into a mountainside in southern China in 2022, according to a newly released National Transportation Safety Board report.
The March 21, 2022, crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 killed all 132 people aboard.
The NTSB report detailed the extraordinary effort investigators undertook to recover data from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder after both devices suffered severe damage in the crash. The U.S. agency assisted China’s Civil Aviation Administration….
Flight Recorder Data Shows Fuel Supply Cut Off Before Deadly China Plane Crash That Killed 132
