Details of crashed Boeing 737-800 and China Eastern Airlines

Here are some facts about the Boeing 737-800 jet and China Eastern Airlines, which were involved in a crash on Monday on a domestic flight with 132 people on board.

Boeing 737-800

The Boeing 737-800 is part of the 737 family, the world’s highest-flying commercial aircraft series. It was developed in the 1960s to serve short or medium length routes.

The 737-800 is part of the 737 NG or Next-Generation family – with more than 7,000 deliveries since 1993 – and has a strong safety record after nearly three decades of flights. The 162- to 189-seat 737-800 was launched on 5 September 1994. The NG 737 is the predecessor of the Max.

Max was shut down around the world for 20 months after two fatal accidents killed 346 people. It is frozen in China.

According to Flightradar24, the jet involved in the China East crash was six years old on its way from the southwest city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province.

According to Sirium statistics, in the United States, American Airlines operates the most 737-800s, followed by Southwest Airlines with 265 and United Airlines with 136.

The last fatal 737-800 crash was in August 2020 when an Air India Express plane overshot a table-top runway and crashed while landing at Calicut International Airport in the southern state of Kerala in heavy rain, killing 21 Went. A government report cited pilot error. as a possible cause.

China

China’s airline safety record has been among the best in the world for a decade, but less transparent than in countries such as the United States and Australia where regulators issue detailed reports on non-fatal incidents.

According to the Aviation Safety Network, China’s last fatal jet crash was in 2010, when an Embraer E-190 regional jet flown by Henan Airlines crashed near Yichun Airport, killing 44 of the 96 people on board. Were.

In 1994, China’s Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashed en route from Xi’an to Guangzhou, killing all 160 people on board in China’s worst air disaster ever, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

Monday’s disaster was the first fatality for China Eastern since 2004, when a plane crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport in northern China, killing 55 people, according to ASN.

Shanghai-based China Eastern was formed in 1988 and is one of the largest three airlines in China, with one of the youngest aircraft.

It is part of the SkyTeam Alliance and US carrier Delta Air Lines owns a 2% stake. China Eastern has been ranked among the ten largest carriers by total passengers in recent years. Delta has “a strategic joint marketing and commercial cooperation arrangement covering traffic flows between China and the US”.

Passenger traffic between China and the United States has declined dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Originally published at Pen 18