US NTSB Says China Hid Intentional Crash of Flight 5735 That Killed 132

Newly released findings from a US transportation safety agency suggest China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was deliberately crashed into mountains in Guangxi province in March 2022. Data from the flight recorders show both engine fuel switches were cut off and one pilot fought to recover control as the jet plunged almost vertically. Video footage of the nosedive appeared hours before the crash, yet no distress call or emergency signal was sent. Chinese regulators later warned that sharing more details could threaten national security and social stability, and references to the incident were scrubbed from social media. The NTSB transmitted cockpit audio and flight data analysis to Beijing soon after recovering the black boxes. Internal US reports point to a struggle in the cockpit, but China’s official updates maintained that systems were functioning normally until impact.

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