Remember this insane crash from March?
Yeah, U.S. officials are saying now that they have evidence the plane was crashed on purpose:
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that flight data from the plane's black box "indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed" the China Eastern Airlines plane back in May.
A person familiar with the assessment from U.S. officials said that "the plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit."
What the heck happened???
Did the pilot have a death wish and want to take a hundred thirty people with him?
Did someone else take over the plane?
While officials have turned their focus to the actions of the pilots, the report cautioned that officials have left open the possibility that someone broke into the cockpit and crashed the plane.
The plane had been cruising at just over 29,000 feet on March 21st when it then plunged more than 20,000 feet in under a minute before later slamming into the ground. All 132 people on board the flight were killed in the crash.
A plane falling at 333 feet per second with its nose pointed at the ground is intentionally being crashed. We had the suspicion at the time, but my goodness it's haunting to think about it actually happening.
The South China Morning Post, which is owned by the Chinese Alibaba Group, reported back in March that the flight data "depicted a battle for control of China Eastern Airlines flight" as the plane had temporarily recovered altitude followed by a second nosedive that took the plane straight into the ground.
I'm not sure if we'll ever have answers, considering this whole thing makes the Chinese communist authorities look bad!
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