Search finds 49,000 pieces of plane in China Eastern crash

Boeing 737-800

so why aren’t they grounded worldwide?

Such a perfect round number.

Absolutely tragic, but hopefully they can at least figure out what happened. It won't bring anyone back but maybe they can prevent it happening again. Glad to see the international agreements facilitating such a process hold strong.

so why aren’t they grounded worldwide?

**becasue there are 1000s in service, the **737-800 has an excellent safety record,

there is no evidence so far that it was a mechanical failure or a fault with the plane.

80% of all aviation crashes of large passenger planes are due to weather or pilot error

Such meticulous work in difficult terrain. Let’s hope for continued cooperation and transparency by all parties involved to uncover the truth and thus, show respect all those that tragically perished.

- “The 2 [orange] “black boxes”, the flight data recorder & the cockpit voice recorder, have been found and sent to Beijing for examination & analysis… a preliminary investigation report would be completed within 30 days of the Mar 21 crash.

A team of U.S. NTSB investigators & advisors from Boeing & the FAA have been granted visas to travel to China to take part in the investigation, under longstanding international agreements.” -

The Chinese have demonstrated their professional inquiry. Gathering the wreckage allows it to be rebuilt in hangar. Fillers can be used to help the team visualize the dramatic impact. Any metals changes and control surfaces condition. It looks like the elevator was jammed. That dive was very rare. They died instantly with a debris radius of 30 meters and a crater 20 meters deep..the plane went in at 300 miles an hour. Rest in peace.

The photograph accompanying this story does in fact show the starboard winglet (which acts to increase the overall efficiency of the aircraft)...

"...the plane went in at 300 miles an hour. Rest in peace."

This information is factually incorrect. The stricken aircraft impacted terrain at nearly the speed of sound (1225 km per hour, depending upon air temperature), far in excess of its design Vne (Never Exceed Speed)...

Quote: “More than 22,000 cubic meters (800,000 cubic feet) of soil were excavated and 49,117 pieces of the plane found, said Zhang Zhiwen”

What would be the point of recounting them?

This information is factually incorrect. The stricken aircraft impacted terrain at nearly the speed of sound (1225 km per hour, depending upon air temperature), far in excess of its design Vne (Never Exceed Speed)..

How do you know this? The mishap investigation will eventually determine the speed the aircraft attained in that dive. It should be saved in the flight data recorder. I seriously doubt it exceeded the speed of sound. I have been in an TA-4J Skyhawk in a vertical dive with the throttle firewalled and didn't bust Mach 1 doing it. A 737-800 with those big draggy turbofans is going to be slower still.

What makes me wonder is why the crashed aircraft nosedived toward the ground rather than flying horizontally under its inertia. The answer from the voice recorder and other devices is awaited so earnestly.

Such a perfect round number.

so 49000 pieces of debris does it for you!?

sorry the 123 people that died isnt a round enough number for you