Report: Deliberate Fuel Cutoff Behind 2022 China Plane Crash
Newly released U.S. data says both engine fuel switches were moved to cutoff at 29,000 feet, supporting a deliberate cockpit action theory.
- Newly disclosed National Transportation Safety Board records show both engines on China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 lost power after fuel switches were "moved from run position to the cutoff position" at 29,000 feet.
- En route from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21, 2022, the Boeing 737 lost contact over Wuzhou, killing all 132 people on board in China's deadliest air disaster in decades.
- The flight data recorder stopped at 26,000 feet, and aviation expert Tony Stanton of Strategic Air cautioned that "any movement of the cockpit controls in an extreme upset and high-speed descent needs to be interpreted together with full validated data," Stanton said.
- China's Civil Aviation Administration has previously denied the crash was intentional, reporting no faults in aircraft systems or engines, and has not published an official investigation update since 2024.
- American officials familiar with the probe told The Wall Street Journal that human input orders sent the plane into its dive, though the NTSB document does not definitively prove motive or identify who manipulated the controls.
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All 132 passengers and crew aboard China Eastern Airlines died in the air disaster in March 2022.
The crash of a Boeing 737 in China is considered unsolved. Now a U.S. authority has published documents that prove it was intentional. One of the pilots had just been demoted.
According to the latest data released by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the cause of the crash was a cut in the fuel supply during the flight. According to the findings of the Americans, the fuel switches in both engines of the China Eastern aircraft were set to the “cut-off” position when the aircraft was at a cruising altitude of 8839 m, which, according to experts, confirms the theory that the collision was purposeful.Bla…
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