China Eastern Airlines resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after the crash

Service plane crash The incident killed 132 people on board and grounded more than 200 of its planes, data from a flight-tracking website showed on April 17.

Airline flight MU5843 China Eastern Airlines by an airplane Boeing 737-800 three years old, took off from the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming at 9:58 a.m. local time on March 20 and landed in Chengdu, also in southwestern China, at 11:03 a.m. days, data from Flightradar24 shows.

The plane, which completed its test flight on March 19, left Chengdu at 1:02 p.m. for Kunming..

A China Eastern Airlines plane lands at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China on March 23, 2022. (Photo: Reuters)

Flightradar24 data shows that another Boeing 737-800 jet made a test flight on the morning of March 20 in Shanghai, where China Eastern Airlines is headquartered. China Eastern Airlines was not immediately available for comment.

On March 21, flight MU5735, en route from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in the mountains of Guangxi province, killing all 123 passengers and nine crew members. This is considered the deadliest air disaster in China in 28 years.

China has recovered both aircraft’s black boxes and said it will submit a preliminary report to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) within 30 days of the incident. plane crash.

China Eastern Airlines used Boeing 737-800 aircraft for the Kunming to Chengdu route. It is expected that on April 19, there will also be other flights of China Eastern Airlines using this aircraft.

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