In some older planes, a part used to keep the wings in place was found to have cracks. (Xinhua via AP) Xinhua/APĬhinese airliner carrying 132 people crashes in southern China A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. In this photo taken by mobile phone released by Xinhua News Agency, a piece of wreckage of the China Eastern's flight MU5735 are seen after it crashed on the mountain in Tengxian County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, March 21, 2022. In 2019 the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that Boeing redesign part of the jet’s engine covers to prevent them from flying into the plane in the event of a similar malfunction. The crew was able to land the plane safely, but a woman sitting next to that window was killed. It smashed one of the windows, and the cabin rapidly depressurized. In that accident, an engine fan blade on a Southwest Airlines flight broke and caused part of the engine covering to hit the side of the plane. In 2018 a single passenger was killed on a Boeing 737-700, the other plane in the Next Generation family. The “Next Generation” planes have had safety issues cited by US regulators, although none of those rose to the level of requiring the planes to be grounded. The Boeing 737-800 is part of a class of Boeing jets known as 737-NG. The 737-800 is an older model aircraft that has been replaced by the 737 Max.īoeing started deliveries of the 737-800 in 1998 but has not delivered a civilian version of the plane since two went to China Eastern in January 2020. And it’s the second-most-common plane in use worldwide, behind only the A320 made by Boeing It is the most common plane model in the United States, where there are 795 in service, as well as in China, which has 1,177 in service.
There are 4,502 of the 737-800s now in service worldwide, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium, making it by far the most common Boeing This is a file photo taken on a Chinese tarmac in February 2022. Tracking services FlightAware and Flightradar24 reported this plane is the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed Monday with 132 people on board.
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