A Boeing 737-800 flight that was carrying 132 people crashed from 30,000 feet in China. Strangely, the plane crashed in a vertical fashion leading to the death of all the people that were there. Now this unusual crash leaves many questions- why did the plane actually crash? Where is the black box? What was the pilot doing? Why was this crash Vertical? Is this really an "accident"? I explain the entire incident and all the theories related to it in this video.
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00:00Hello, friends.
00:01On 21st March, 2022, at 1.11 pm,
00:05a flight MU5735 from China takes off from Kunming.
00:09It is a normal passenger flight that has to cover a 2-hour journey
00:13and reach Guangzhou, a city in Southeast China.
00:16But after about an hour of flight, at 2.20 pm,
00:21this plane suddenly loses altitude very quickly.
00:26It starts falling downwards.
00:28Usually, if there is a technical problem with a plane or if the engine of the plane breaks down,
00:32the design of the aeroplanes is such that they will descend while gliding.
00:37In a minute, they will fall down at a speed of a few thousand feet.
00:40But this aeroplane falls from almost 30,000 feet to the ground
00:45in just 1 minute and 35 seconds.
00:47If you jump from the aeroplane to do skydiving,
00:50you will usually fall down at this speed.
00:52But here, a big passenger jet started falling down vertically.
00:57And in less than 2 minutes, it crashed on a hill.
01:01When this aeroplane was about to fall down,
01:03a distant camera captured this scene.
01:06In the video footage, it is clearly visible that the plane was falling vertically.
01:10It was nose-diving.
01:11How is this possible?
01:13Every passenger on the plane dies.
01:16And this crash is now considered one of the worst aeroplane disasters in China.
01:20The administration of China has confirmed that a China Eastern Airlines plane
01:25has crashed in the south of the country.
01:27It appears it was descending at about 10,000 feet per minute.
01:31So this is well beyond what you would see in the event of an emergency descent.
01:35So something went rapidly wrong. We don't know what.
01:38One of the black boxes was found in the wreckage of a Boeing jet.
01:42There is no word yet on whether anyone has survived the crash.
01:46This plane crash has shocked the air crash investigators and experts all over the world.
01:54What could be the reason for this crash?
01:58You can see the data from Flight Radar 24 in this chart.
02:02It shows the height of the plane at what time.
02:06Initially, the plane took off normally.
02:09You can see it on the slope in the beginning.
02:11Then it maintained an altitude of 29,000 feet.
02:14For about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
02:16And then suddenly, at 2.20 pm, the plane crashed very rapidly downwards.
02:21But in the chart, you can see something very strange.
02:24At an altitude of about 8,000 feet,
02:26while the plane was descending,
02:28it went up a little and then descended again.
02:31What could be the reason for this slight ascent?
02:35Almost all kinds of explanations are being given here.
02:38Maybe the plane's engine broke down.
02:40Maybe there was a technical problem with the plane.
02:42Maybe the plane's pilot wanted to commit suicide here.
02:45Maybe there was a terrorist attack in this plane.
02:48Or maybe the plane's pilot suddenly fainted.
02:51Or maybe there was a weather-related problem.
02:53Right now, the search and rescue teams are trying to find the black box and crash recorders in the plane.
02:59And at the same time, they're also trying to find the people in the plane.
03:02Maybe someone survived.
03:04But we have the weather report of that time.
03:07According to the China Meteorological Administration,
03:09According to the China Meteorological Administration,
03:12the temperature there was around 30 degrees Celsius.
03:15Moderate winds were blowing.
03:17The winds that usually blow there.
03:19It was forecasted that it would rain.
03:21But it rained in the evening.
03:23At that point of time, there was no rain at that place.
03:25And the visibility was more than 10 miles.
03:28So the weather conditions at that time were not unusual at all.
03:32The weather was quite normal.
03:34The problem is that now that the rain has intensified there,
03:37the search and rescue teams are facing a lot of difficulty in finding these black boxes.
03:40Today, on 23rd March, because of this reason,
03:42they had to temporarily stop their search operation.
03:45Apart from this, the place where the crash happened
03:47is in the middle of the mountains.
03:49And there is a dense jungle there.
03:50It is not easy to reach there and find it.
03:53Usually, the flight data recorder and voice data recorder are made crash-proof.
03:57But will they be able to bear this type of crash?
04:00This is a big question.
04:01The latest update is that one of the two black boxes has been found by the search teams.
04:06The box was badly damaged from the outside.
04:08But the internal records are telling the truth.
04:10This black box has been sent to Beijing for further investigation.
04:14Hopefully, we will get more information from here.
04:16Aviation expert Neil Hansford says that
04:18the chances of this incident being an accident are very low.
04:22In his opinion, it is highly unlikely that it was an accident.
04:26He took the example of Air France Flight 447
04:29that crashed in 2009.
04:31There was a technical problem in that flight.
04:33The pilots were confused because of it.
04:35When the plane crashed, it slowly descended.
04:37But this is a Chinese plane crash.
04:39This plane has fallen from the sky like a stone.
04:42If this had happened due to an accident,
04:44then this accident would've been very dangerous.
04:47Either the wings of the plane broke,
04:49or a missile was fired on the plane,
04:51or the plane collided with something in the sky.
04:53Only then could the plane have fallen like this.
04:55If there is no possibility,
04:57then the pilot must've done something.
04:59Or a passenger in the plane forcefully took the pilot's control and did this.
05:05American Federal Aviation Investigator Michael Daniel
05:08also says that
05:10this crash was most likely a foul play.
05:13Someone has done this intentionally.
05:15He gave an example of two old crashes.
05:18Egypt Air Flight 990
05:20that was going from New York to Cairo in 1999,
05:24crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.
05:26And Silk Air Flight 185
05:28that crashed near Sumatra, Indonesia in 1997.
05:32These are two rare examples
05:34where the aeroplanes fell very fast like this.
05:38In both these cases,
05:39the plane was intentionally crashed by the pilot.
05:43Some people are questioning the model of the plane.
05:45Because the two most recent plane crashes in the world,
05:49in 2018, there was a plane crash in Indonesia,
05:51and in 2019, there was a plane crash in Ethiopia,
05:53the reason behind both the plane crashes was
05:56the technical problems in the construction of the plane.
05:58Both the plane crashes were with a specific model of plane.
06:02Boeing 737 MAX was actually an upgraded model
06:05compared to Boeing 737-800.
06:08The new model launched by Boeing.
06:10In this, it was said that
06:12it has made the plane's engine more efficient
06:14and to reduce the noise inside the plane,
06:16it has shifted the plane's engine to the front.
06:19A little to the front of the wings.
06:21But by changing the location of the plane's engine,
06:23there were aerodynamic problems in the plane.
06:25Especially when the flight conditions were unusual,
06:27the weather was not so good.
06:29To solve this problem,
06:31Boeing installed a special software
06:33called Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.
06:37MCAS.
06:38But this special software didn't work properly.
06:41Both the crashes that took place in 2018-2019,
06:43because of a faulty sensor,
06:45this MCAS system was incorrectly activated.
06:49Because of this, the nose of the plane turned downwards.
06:52A Boeing pilot criticized his own company
06:55and said that when he launched the new 737 MAX,
06:59he said that the pilots who have the certification
07:02to fly the 737-800,
07:04they would have to do a small computer course
07:07so that they can become trained to fly the 737 MAX.
07:10But the training that was being given to the pilots
07:12to fly the 737 MAX,
07:14was not sufficient.
07:15Later, it was found out that
07:17the US Federal Aviation Administration,
07:19Boeing, didn't even tell them properly
07:21about this new system, this MCAS system.
07:23Because of these reasons,
07:25in January 2021, the US Department of Justice found out
07:28that Boeing has tried to defraud the US government.
07:32That's why they'd have to pay a fine of $2.5 billion
07:36because of these things.
07:38But to be honest, in today's story,
07:40this reason has nothing to do with it.
07:42Because the plane that crashed in China
07:44was actually a 737-800 model.
07:48Not a 737 MAX.
07:50And the 737-800 model
07:52has been around for many years.
07:54It's a very reliable model.
07:56It's considered to be one of the safest passenger jets.
07:59After understanding all the explanations,
08:01the most likely scenario here is
08:03that the pilot intentionally crashed the plane.
08:07But the biggest question is
08:09why did the pilot do it?
08:11There have been many conspiracy theories on Chinese social media.
08:15In a very popular conspiracy theory,
08:17America is actually being blamed.
08:20It's being said that what's happening in Russia and Ukraine,
08:23China didn't take a clear stand against Russia.
08:26That's why America crashed this plane in China.
08:29These conspiracy theories
08:31are being raised by Chinese social media users.
08:33I'd told you about this in the previous plane crash video.
08:36Whenever there's a big disaster,
08:38and there's no clear-cut reason behind it,
08:41there's no proper explanation,
08:43conspiracy theories are often made on such things.
08:47And if you're scared after watching this video,
08:49that you're not going to travel on a plane next time,
08:51why do planes keep crashing?
08:53There's no need to be scared.
08:54Don't worry.
08:55Because statistically speaking,
08:57aeroplanes are one of the safest modes of transportation.
09:00And the most commonly used models of Boeing planes,
09:04Boeing 737's 600, 700, 800, 900 plane models,
09:08the chances of a crash are
09:110.07 crashes per million flights.
09:15If 1 million flights are taken in the world,
09:180.07 of them will crash.
09:20There are so few chances of a plane crashing here.
09:23Apart from this, Airbus A300,
09:25another popular model,
09:26has a chance of 0.46 crashes per million flights.
09:29And Airbus A310,
09:31has a chance of 1.35 crashes per million flights.
09:35Obviously, these statistics are based on past records.
09:39That so many flights were taken in the world
09:41with this specific model of plane.
09:43And how many of them crashed.
09:45But all the recent plane crashes,
09:47you'll definitely notice one thing,
09:49are they due to a technical fault in the software,
09:51or due to a deliberate action by the pilot.
09:54A crash due to bad weather,
09:56or a crash due to hijacking,
09:58in today's world,
10:00there are very few chances of them happening.
10:02What do you think is the reason behind this?
10:04Tell us in the comments below.
10:06Thank you very much.
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