China Eastern Airlines crash may have been deliberate, says report


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dpa Beijing The crash of a China Eastern Airlines plane which killed 132 people in March may have been intentional, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing a preliminary US assessment. Flight data indicated that someone in the cockpit of flight MU5735 intentionally crashed the aircaft, the WSJ reported, citing people it said were familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment of the causes of the accident, which includes data extracted from the jet’s damaged black box. “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit,” an unnamed source was quoted as saying. China’s aviation...