[TheEpochTimesMay192022](The Epoch Times reporters Winnie and Zhang Zhongyuan interviewed and reported) The CCP authorities once insisted that the rumor that “the cause of the crash of China Eastern Airlines locked the co-pilot” was untrue, but recently a number of US media quoted news to disclose , The US preliminary assessment shows that someone in the cockpit deliberately manipulated the plane to crash. The senior American pilot analysis believes that the first officer deserves the most attention to the investigation.
On May 17, The Wall Street Journal exclusively reported that black box data from the crashed China Eastern Airlines plane showed that commands entered into the controls sent the plane into a deadly dive, according to sources familiar with the initial assessment by U.S. officials. This means that someone in the cockpit deliberately manipulated the plane to crash.
On May 18, ABC News, citing U.S. officials, confirmed that U.S. analysis believed that the death of 132 people on the China Eastern Airlines flight was caused by deliberate behavior. U.S. officials said the plane’s near-vertical descent required deliberate pressure, and the plane’s flaps and landing gear were not lowered, apparently artificial.
This was confirmed by Gao Fei, a senior American pilot. Gao Fei told The Epoch Times that a normal landing of the plane would lower the plane’s flaps and landing gear. Gao Fei has 26 years of flying experience and is very familiar with the Boeing 737-800 (the type of plane that crashed).
In addition to The Wall Street Journal and the ABC, commercial aviation publication Leeham News and Analysis disclosed last month that preliminary readings from the flight data recorder of the crashed China Eastern Airlines plane showed the pilot deliberately entered (diving) into the controls. instruction.
According to multiple reports, neither U.S. regulators, Boeing nor official Chinese investigations have found any mechanical problems with the crashed plane.
In a statement to The Wall Street Journal, China Eastern said there was still no evidence of any problems with the crashed plane. The statement reiterated the company’s March statement that the three pilots were healthy, family and financially healthy.
However, Gao Fei questioned that China Eastern did not tell the outside world in the statement whether the training of these pilots was good, especially whether the company’s internal relations were good, and the company’s cultural atmosphere, treatment, etc., were very important to the pilots, because any emotions of the pilots Volatility can bring security risks.
Fujimura, a Japan Airlines pilot with more than 20 years of driving experience, analyzed in an interview with The Epoch Times that the crash of China Eastern Airlines should be a man-made, not a mechanical failure; if there is a mechanical failure, the plane will fall slowly like a paper plane, and It is not a vertical dive; since it is a dive, there may be two reasons, one is the driver’s suicide, and the other is being kidnapped.
According to ABC, investigators are also looking into the background of a pilot who crashed the plane and believe he may have encountered some setbacks before the crash and has been working hard to overcome them.
Gao Fei believes that among the three pilots, the co-pilot Zhang Zhengping deserves the most attention and investigation. He analyzed that the captain Yang Hongda was young and promising, and he had a promising future. His father was also the captain of China Eastern Airlines, so he had no reason to commit suicide; while the second co-pilot, Ni Gongtao, a young man, was in a relationship, and he had no reason to do so. commit suicide.
“But the co-pilot Zhang Zhengping is different. He is a meritorious pilot with 40 years of flying experience. He used to be a captain instructor and an inspector appointed by the bureau. It’s normal. So the possibility of him flying with emotions cannot be ruled out.” Gao Fei said.
A veteran captain of China Eastern Airlines confirmed to The Epoch Times that some of the more honest old captains of China Eastern Airlines were suppressed for various reasons, and as a result, there were not a few who became co-pilots or even become co-pilots for life.
According to a former employee of China Airlines who now lives in the United States, Zhang Zhengping was a senior pilot of the former Yunnan Airlines. After the merger of Yunnan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines, the former employees of Yunnan Airlines, including Zhang Zhengping, had a very complicated relationship with the headquarters of China Eastern Airlines. the contradiction.
“Global Travel News” (Travel Daily) reported in 2008 that Yunnan Airlines was very profitable, but in 2002 it was forcibly merged by China Eastern Airlines. A former employee of Yunnan Airlines complained, “It is unprecedented for a loss-making company to merge with a profitable company, and this is the key reason why Yunnan Airlines people have been unconvinced.”
The Civil Aviation Administration of China and China Eastern Airlines did not respond to Epoch Times‘ requests for comment by press time.
Responsible editor: Lian Shuhua#