China Eastern 737 crash March 21/2022

[Slick Goodlin]

The photos of the impact scene are bizarre. The tiny bits scattered around are not even
recognizable as aircraft parts.

Cue the “It WaS a MiSsiLe” crew to start their YouTube investigations…

[vanNostrum]

Is the tail missing?
Looks like a missile
Terrifying last moments for all onboard RIP

There’s a screenshot from a video floating around, the tail is missing, but tough to say, who knows if it’s real or not.

How much does the tail weight?
If the tail broke off would the CG shift forward enough to cause the vertical dive?

[Colonel]

Saw an "expert" on TV declare that nothing like this had ever happened before.

1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185 (B737)
1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990 (B767)
2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_ ... Flight_370 (B777)
2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 (A320)

Interesting common theme in all of the above - the political agencies
responsible for investigating, do everything they can to avoid concluding
pilot suicide, including over-riding the investigators in the final report.

Apparently, pilots never commit suicide. Right?

And what's the point of having technical investigators if the political
appointees are going to ignore them in the accident report? Why not
just have the political appointees write the entire report and let the
technical people go do something else useful instead of wasting
their time?

I have $20 that if they ever find the jackscrew for this 737 that crashed,
it's going to be trimmed full nose down. The wings produce enormous
lift at those speeds, at least until you encounter trans-sonic stall and
mach tuck.

[TundraTire]

Black box data is showing this to be an intentional act.

Multiple news agencies are reporting this today.

[Colonel]

Well, that sure came as a surprise to me!

[Scudrunner]

Can't wait for the political officer in the cockpit to keep an eye on the pilots.

[Colonel]

If the pattern of history is any indication, we can expect to see yet another "split"
accident result report, with the nation of the pilot saying "undetermined cause" and
other nations saying suicide.

It's really hard to have any respect for accident investigation boards. They are
political animals serving their masters.

[Nark]

If it was the the TSB, this would be called a “hard landing.”

[Colonel]

[Nark]

“3.12 g’s upon landing”

Yeah, I’d say that’s a “hard landing.”

http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-r ... f0065.html