{"id":19190,"date":"2022-03-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=19190"},"modified":"2022-03-23T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T02:44:15","slug":"boeing-issues-a-statement-following-the-fatal-crash-of-china-eastern-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/boeing-issues-a-statement-following-the-fatal-crash-of-china-eastern-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"China plane crash: Boeing issued a statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Boeing has issued an official statement regarding <strong>China Eastern flight MU5735, <\/strong>which was killed in a disaster in the Guangxi highlands involving a <strong>B737-800<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\"><strong>MU5735<\/strong>, with registration <strong>B-1791<\/strong>, was travelling from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21, 2022, and was <em>lost at 0622 UTC, just over an hour after take off.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/10-18-34-2019-01-08T161117Z_1_LYNXNPEF070Z9_RTROPTP_4_BOEING-INDIA-OUTLOOK-1019x573-1.webp\" alt=\"Boeing has issued an official statement regarding China Eastern flight MU5735, which was killed in a disaster in the Guangxi \" class=\"wp-image-19192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/10-18-34-2019-01-08T161117Z_1_LYNXNPEF070Z9_RTROPTP_4_BOEING-INDIA-OUTLOOK-1019x573-1.webp 500w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/10-18-34-2019-01-08T161117Z_1_LYNXNPEF070Z9_RTROPTP_4_BOEING-INDIA-OUTLOOK-1019x573-1-300x180.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The B737-800 aircraft, which was carrying <strong>132 passengers<\/strong>, was eventually confirmed to have <strong>crashed<\/strong> in the Guangxi highlands of southern China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>There are <strong>no survivors<\/strong> at the Guangxi location, according to state media.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boeing said in a statement made on March 21, 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em>The passengers and crew of China <strong>Eastern Airlines Flight MU 5735<\/strong> are in our thoughts. <\/em><\/p><p><em>We are collaborating with our airline clients and are prepared to assist them. <\/em><\/p><p>Boeing is in contact with the <em><strong>National Transportation Safety Board<\/strong> in the United States, and our technical specialists are ready to assist with the <strong>Chinese Civil Aviation Administration&#8217;s inquiry.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our thoughts are with the passengers and crew of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU 5735. We are working with our airline customer and are ready to support them.<\/p>&mdash; The Boeing Company (@Boeing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boeing\/status\/1505958779799678978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FAA STATEMENT <br>The FAA is aware of reports that a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crashed this morning in China. The agency is ready to assist in investigation efforts if asked.<\/p>&mdash; The FAA \u2708\ufe0f (@FAANews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAANews\/status\/1505876056674385925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The B737 aircraft involved in the accident was delivered to China Eastern Airlines (CIAH) (CEA) in June 2015.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Boeing-made aircraft fleet of China Eastern Airlines (CIAH) (CEA) consists of <strong>289 Boeing 737 family aircraft, 20 Boeing 777s, and 10 Boeing 787 Dreamliners.<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A total of <strong>seven COMAC ARJ21 <\/strong>regional planes are also part of the group&#8217;s fleet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940.jpg 800w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/240940-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Boeing.in\">Boeing&#8217;s<\/a> stock dropped 3.6 percent <\/strong>on March 21, 2022, according to Wall Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has issued an official statement regarding China Eastern flight MU5735, which was killed in a disaster in the Guangxi <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[248,249,5569,2500,5573,5574],"class_list":{"0":"post-19190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boeing","9":"tag-boeing-737-max","10":"tag-china-eastern-airlines","11":"tag-fatal-crash","12":"tag-guangxi","13":"tag-mu5735"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19211,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190\/revisions\/19211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}