re: Boeing 737 Crashes in China. 132 on board

Those guys are clowns

I flew China Eastern from LAX to Beijing and on to Bangkok back in 2018. Great flight, service was solid, food was good.

I'm hoping the FDR and CVR hardware protected the memory boards well enough to extract all recorded info. That was an absolute enormous impact. With the CAAC in charge I'm a little concerned about the integrity of this investigation.

Does anyone know how to find historical radar or satellite imagery of the location and time of the crash?

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get your app in with AA...TODAY!!!!! pilot pool is dried up, they are calling people in and giving them offers on the spot, Delta has eased four year degree requirements, what's the worst thing they can say? you can even say no to them, AA's app is like one page, ATP and 1000 hours turbine PIC is all they're looking for, I believe

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Can I email you with questions if I hit a roadblock?

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yeah, let me dig up an email address but I looked at the app a few weeks ago(trying to get my nephew to get his arse in gear to submit it,) I filled it out for him in about five minutes over a glass of whiskey, anything above the minimum is gravy, being a jarhead won't hurt, just make sure the flight time submitted reasonably checks out with your log books/documentation

Is this the show lost?

Update: the NTSB has been helping download data from both black boxes.

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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has been helping Chinese officials download two black-box recorders that were damaged in the mysterious crash of a Boeing Co. 737 jetliner on March 21.

The work to decipher the final sounds caught by cockpit microphones on the doomed jetliner is being carried out in the NTSB’s lab in Washington, spokesman Peter Knudson said in an email. He declined to discuss how or when the cockpit recorder was brought to the lab, which is routinely used by investigators around the world after accidents.

The second so-called black box is the flight data recorder, which captures hundreds of data parameters tracking an aircraft’s path and how its systems are performing. It was also brought to the U.S., said a person familiar with the effort.

Another NTSB spokesman, Eric Weiss, said he couldn’t comment on any information involving the second recorder.

The work is being assisted by technicians from Honeywell International Inc., which made the recorders, according to another person familiar with the work. The people were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive inquiry.

Both devices were damaged in the high-impact crash, Chinese investigators have said.

Separately Friday, teams of NTSB investigators and Boeing technical experts from the U.S. departed for China, underscoring the cooperation between the two nations as they look into the accident, which killed all 132 people aboard.

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Bloomberg

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Worth adding important context: NTSB has studiously avoided commenting on its work in this accident, as it has done on every foreign assist I’ve ever covered. #CAAC is running this show.
Another point: This accident has gotten a lot of attention because of the rarity of crashes and perhaps because of int’l tensions. BUT this is being conducted very normally.
Last I heard, @NTSB helps out on dozens, maybe more than 100, black box downloads a year and it barely gets noticed. That China would bring them here is very much business as usual.

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It went into a dive from 29-30,000 feet.

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