The black box flight data allegedly shows that someone input orders to send the Boeing 737-800 into a nosedive.
Investigators probing the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining whether it was due to intentional action taken on the flight deck, with no evidence so far of a technical malfunction, two people briefed on the matter said.
“The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit,” the Journal quoted “a person who is familiar with American officials’ preliminary assessment” as saying. Screenshots of the Wall Street Journal story appeared to be censored both on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo and messaging app Wechat on Wednesday morning.
China Eastern grounded its entire fleet of 737-800 planes after the crash, but resumed flights in mid-April in a move widely seen at the time as ruling out any immediate new safety concern over Boeing’s previous and still most widely used model. She noted that the investigation to date had not found any safety issues that would require any urgent actions.The NTSB assisted Chinese investigators with the review of black boxes at its US lab in Washington. Shares of Boeing closed up 6.5 per cent.Analysts say most crashes are caused by a cocktail of human and technical factors. Deliberate crashes are exceptionally rare.
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