BEIJING: US accident investigators arrived in China on Saturday to help authorities search for clues about what caused last month’s crash of a plane Boeing jet with 132 people on board.
Group of seven members from National Traffic Safety Board will participate Civil Aviation Administration of ChinaInvestigation into the crash of Boeing 737-800 of China Eastern Airlines on March 21.
As part of that support, the plane’s cockpit voice recorder is being downloaded and analyzed at a US lab in Washington, federal officials said Friday.
Investigators hope the recording will explain why the plane plunged into the abyss from about 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) above a mountainous region in southeastern China.
Chinese officials said that air traffic controllers were unable to receive feedback from the pilots while the plane was descending.
The cockpit voice recorder picks up voices and other sounds from a microphone worn by the pilot and another microphone placed above their head.
Searchers also recovered the plane’s flight data recorder, which continuously records speed, altitude, course and other information as well as the performance of the plane’s key systems, but it That record was not evaluated in Washington on Friday.
The NTSB said its investigators will limit contact with people outside of the investigation so they can begin work immediately without going through a quarantine period.
The plane that crashed was not a 737 Max, a newer model that has been temporarily grounded worldwide following two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The impact of the crash in China created a crater 20 meters (65 foot-) deep, burned the surrounding forest, and smashed the plane into many small pieces scattered over a wide area, some of which were damaged. buried underground. More than 49,000 pieces of debris were recovered, along with a number of human remains and personal effects.
A Chinese aviation safety official said a preliminary investigation report would be completed within 30 days of the plane crash.
Flight MU5735 with 123 passengers and 9 crew members departed from the southwestern city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, a major city and export manufacturing hub near Hong Kong in southeast China.
The 737-800 has an excellent safety record, and China’s aviation industry has had relatively few risks in recent years.
Before last month’s crash, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred in August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines crashed on the runway to the east. north of Yichun city and caught fire, killing 44 people. Investigators blamed the pilot.
Group of seven members from National Traffic Safety Board will participate Civil Aviation Administration of ChinaInvestigation into the crash of Boeing 737-800 of China Eastern Airlines on March 21.
As part of that support, the plane’s cockpit voice recorder is being downloaded and analyzed at a US lab in Washington, federal officials said Friday.
Investigators hope the recording will explain why the plane plunged into the abyss from about 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) above a mountainous region in southeastern China.
Chinese officials said that air traffic controllers were unable to receive feedback from the pilots while the plane was descending.
The cockpit voice recorder picks up voices and other sounds from a microphone worn by the pilot and another microphone placed above their head.
Searchers also recovered the plane’s flight data recorder, which continuously records speed, altitude, course and other information as well as the performance of the plane’s key systems, but it That record was not evaluated in Washington on Friday.
The NTSB said its investigators will limit contact with people outside of the investigation so they can begin work immediately without going through a quarantine period.
The plane that crashed was not a 737 Max, a newer model that has been temporarily grounded worldwide following two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The impact of the crash in China created a crater 20 meters (65 foot-) deep, burned the surrounding forest, and smashed the plane into many small pieces scattered over a wide area, some of which were damaged. buried underground. More than 49,000 pieces of debris were recovered, along with a number of human remains and personal effects.
A Chinese aviation safety official said a preliminary investigation report would be completed within 30 days of the plane crash.
Flight MU5735 with 123 passengers and 9 crew members departed from the southwestern city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, a major city and export manufacturing hub near Hong Kong in southeast China.
The 737-800 has an excellent safety record, and China’s aviation industry has had relatively few risks in recent years.
Before last month’s crash, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred in August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines crashed on the runway to the east. north of Yichun city and caught fire, killing 44 people. Investigators blamed the pilot.
