China issues preliminary report on China Eastern flight 5735

April 22, 2022

On Wednesday, the of China (CAAC) issued a preliminary report about the crash of China Eastern  (MU5735), which killed 132 passengers and crew, without drawing any definitive conclusions.

The CAAC report said both of the recovered were significantly damaged and yielded no usable information. The recorders have been sent to the United States National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C. for further analysis.

MU5735 was en route from to Guangzhou on a domestic flight when it suddenly went into a steep decline in altitude and crashed into a mountainside on March 21. The CAAC said had their final communication with the pilots at 2:16pm  when it was still at cruising altitude of.