China Eastern crash in March that killed 132 likely deliberate, says US report


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China Eastern plane crash may have been intentional says investigators. Black box data recovered from a China Eastern Airlines flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the cockpit intentionally downed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported. Investigators have so far found no mechanical or technical faults to cause the Boeing 737-800 plane to go into a catastrophic dive. The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed source who said: “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit.” The plane’s flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered from the crash and sent to...