None of the 132 people on board the crashed China Easton Airline have yet been traced and search operations are underway two days after the crash. The plane crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday and the crash caused a fire in a mountainous area.
The plane was flying at the speed of sound before the crash, according to flight track data from Bloomberg. A lot of things are not known about the accident because the speed of the plane was too high. The voice recorder was also unable to record the movements of the aircraft moving at such a speed. According to data from Flightradar 24, the speed of the plane was more than 966 kilometers per hour.
Explain that the speed of sound at sea level is 761 meters per hour, while at higher altitudes, the speed decreases due to low temperature. At an altitude of 35 thousand feet, the speed of sound remains only 633 meters per hour.
State broadcaster CCTV said Tuesday morning, 18 hours after the crash, “Wreckage of the plane has been found at the scene, but so far no one has been found on board.” The Boeing 737-800 aircraft On his way from Kunming to Guanzhou, he met with an accident near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi region.
China’s Civil Aviation Administration said 123 passengers and nine crew members were on board the plane. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered a comprehensive rescue operation to ensure civil aviation safety as well as a full investigation into the accident.
At the same time, ‘China Eastern Airline’, one of China’s three largest airlines, has canceled flights of all its Boeing 737-800 aircraft after the accident on Monday. China Eastern Airlines has also changed the color of its website to black.