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Diamars 22 maart 2022

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south

tion agency, huddled around tation Safety Board tweeted Broadcaster CCTV said Chi-
tables and read documents. Monday that it had picked na Eastern set up nine teams
a senior investigator to help to deal with aircraft disposal,
State media reported all 737- with the crash investigation. accident investigation, family
800s in China Eastern’s fleet The U.S. Federal Aviation assistance and other pressing
were ordered grounded. Avi- Administration, which certi- matters.
ation experts said it is unusu- fied the 737-800 in the 1990s,
al to ground an entire fleet said it was ready to help in The CAAC and China East-
of planes unless there is evi- the investigation if asked. ern both said they had sent
dence of a problem with the officials to the crash site in
model. China has more 737- Chicago-based Boeing Co. accordance with emergency
800s than any other country said it was in contact with the measures.
— nearly 1,200 of the planes, U.S. safety board “and our
and if other Chinese airlines technical experts are prepared China Eastern online made
ground the plane, it “could to assist with the investiga- its website have a black-and-
(AP) — A China Eastern arrive at the forested area have a significant impact on tion led by the Civil Aviation white homepage after the
Boeing 737-800 with 132 where the plane went down domestic travel,” said avia- Administration of China.” crash.
people on board crashed and sparked a blaze big tion consultant IBA. Boeing shares fell more than
in a remote mountainous enough to be seen on NASA 4% in afternoon trading in The accident quickly became
area of southern China on satellite images. Hundreds of Boeing 737-800s have been New York. a leading topic on China’s
Monday, officials said, set- rescue workers were swiftly flying since 1998, and Boe- Twitter-like Weibo platform,
ting off a forest fire visible dispatched from Guangxi ing has sold more than 5,100 Crash investigations are usu- with 1.34 billion views and
from space in the coun- and neighboring Guangdong of them. They have been in- ally led by officials in the 690,000 discussions. Many
try’s worst air disaster in province. volved in 22 accidents that country where the crash oc- posts expressed condolences
nearly a decade. totaled the planes and killed curred, but they typically to the families of victims,
The plane was carrying 123 612 people, according to data include the airplane’s manu- while others questioned the
More than 12 hours after passengers and nine crew compiled by the Aviation facturer and the investigator planes’ safety.
communication was lost with members, the CAAC said, Safety Network, an arm of or regulator in the manufac-
the plane, there was still no correcting earlier reports the Flight Safety Foundation. turer’s home country. The twin-engine, single-
word of survivors. that 133 people had been on aisle Boeing 737 in various
board. “There are thousands of Shahidi said he expects in- versions has been flying for
The Civil Aviation Admin- them around the world. It’s vestigators to comb through more than 50 years and is one
istration of China said in a Chinese President Xi Jinping certainly had an excellent the maintenance history of of the world’s most popular
statement that the crash oc- called for an “all-out effort” safety record,” the founda- the plane and its engines, the planes for short and medi-
curred near the city of Wu- by the rescue operation, as tion’s president, Hassan Sha- training and records of the um-haul flights.
zhou in the Guangxi region. well as for an investigation hidi, said of the 737-800. pilots, air traffic control dis-
The flight was traveling from into the crash and to ensure cussions and other topics. The 737 Max, a later version,
Kunming in the southwest- complete civil aviation safety. China’s air-safety record has was grounded worldwide for
ern province of Yunnan to the improved since the 1990s as Headquartered in Shanghai, nearly two years after two
industrial center of Guang- Relatives of crew members air travel has grown dramati- China Eastern is one of the crashes in 2018 and 2019
zhou along the east coast, it arrived at a China Eastern cally with the rise of a bur- country’s top three airlines, killed 346 people. China’s
added. office near the Kunming air- geoning middle class. Before operating scores of domestic aviation regulator cleared the
port where the plane took Monday, the last fatal crash of and international routes serv- Max to return to service late
China Eastern flight 5735 off, state broadcaster CCTV a Chinese airliner occurred ing 248 destinations. last year, making the country
had been traveling 455 knots reported. On Monday night, in August 2010, when an the last major market to do
(523 mph, 842 kph) at around an Associated Press journalist Embraer ERJ 190-100 oper- The aircraft was delivered to so.
30,000 feet when it entered a saw police officers and secu- ated by Henan Airlines hit the airliner from Boeing in
steep dive around 2:20 p.m. rity guards patrolling outside the ground short of the run- June 2015 and had been fly- The deadliest crash involv-
local time, according to data the office with flashlights, or- way in the northeastern city ing for more than six years. ing a Boeing 737-800 came
from flight-tracking web- dering journalists to leave. of Yichun and caught fire. China Eastern Airlines uses in January 2020, when Iran’s
site FlightRadar24.com. The All 44 people on board were the Boeing 737-800 as a paramilitary Revolution-
plane stopped transmitting At a hotel near the airport, killed. Investigators blamed workhorse of its fleet — the ary Guard accidentally shot
data 96 seconds later. about a dozen people, some pilot error. airline has more than 600 down a Ukraine Internation-
in jackets identifying them planes, and 109 are Boeing al Airlines flight, killing all
Local villagers were first to as members of China’s avia- The U.S. National Transpor- 737-800s. 176 people on board.

Mali’s ex-Prime Minister Soumeylou Maiga dies in detention

(AP) — Mali’s former tion had been refused by the confirmed by several other appointed the director of in- ethnic Gandakoy militia that
Prime Minister Soumey- military rulers of the West people close to him. Some telligence services by Presi- is accused of abuses against
lou Boubèye Maïga died African country. heads of state in West Africa dent Alpha Oumar Konaré. civilians of the Tuareg ethnic
on Monday in the capital, have confirmed the account Critics accused him of being minority in northern Mali.
Bamako, a close relative Maiga’s state of health dete- as well. behind the creation of the
of his family announced. riorated sharply a few days
ago and approval for him Niger President Mohamed
Maiga, who served as prime to be moved from Mali for Bazoum reacted in a tweet,
minister of Mali from 2017 treatment was being consid- saying that the denial of over-
until 2019, was 67. ered but did not happen in seas medical care for Maiga
time, according to a relative was similar to an assassina-
He remained an influential who spoke to The Associated tion.
figure in security policy in Press on condition of ano-
Mali and the surrounding nymity because he was not The president of the politi-
Sahel region and had been authorized to speak to the cal party Alliance for Solidar-
detained since August 2021 press on the situation. Maiga ity in Mali - Convergence of
when the country was taken died in a clinic, he said. Patriotic Forces ASMA-CFP,
over by a military junta. His Maiga was a journalist by
requests for medical evacua- The information has been training. In the 1990s he was