According to a tweet from Flightradar24, approximately one hour into the flight, the aircraft was in cruise flight at 29,100 feet when it abruptly lost altitude, entering a steep descent. The aircraft appeared to recover briefly at approximately 8,000 feet, then it reentered dive.

Some sources claim the sudden nose-dive was intentional because of manual crew input, but to me it sounds like the crew reacted to something extremely strange happening and tried to correct it (“let’s click the AUTO button and get some rest. Oh shit.”), especially since the aircraft “appeared to recover briefly at approx. 8,000 feet”. Sounds a lot like all the other Boeing 737-x crashes where the pilots were surprised by the sudden nosedive, wrestled manual control back, only for the systems to kick in again into a dive.

I post this not as news, but as a point of interest for me personally.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOPM
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    6 months ago

    Ok, so several Boeing 737 types crash straight into the ground, but this particular one crashed straight into the ground for completely unrelated reasons to the other ones?

    I see.

    And these planes, they never had upgrades? Nothing new installed? Just out of the blue, literally just started falling out of the sky?

    You know what bothers me? That year after year apologists like yourself blamed everything but Boeing’s design.

    It’s like “ok we caught the serial killer”, “oh great, maybe those other deaths were also him, because it’s all the same characteristics and exact MO as the others, and he was the only survivor on the scene!”

    “DONT BE RETARDED THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE, HOW DUMB ARE YOU TO SUSPECT HIM OF MURDERING THOSE POOR FOLK?! FOR SHAME!”

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yes it crashed for completely unrelated reasons because it was a completely different plane.

      If you had any idea how airplane engineering, and airworthiness certifications occurred you wouldn’t even ask those questions. All they do is betray your ignorance of the situation. What part of MCAS and not being installed on that plane, never being installed on that plane, and being impossible to install on that plane is unclear?

      You are literally making shit up and looking stupid doing it.