There Is A Suspicion That There Was An Intentional Factor When The China Eastern Plane Crashed

Rescue teams carry out search and rescue efforts at the crash site of the China Eastern Airlines plane in Guangxi, China. (Antara/Xinhua/Lu Boan/wsj)

JAKARTA - ABC News reported, a US official suspected there was intentional behind the China Eastern Airlines plane crash that killed 132 people.

The Boeing 737-800 took off from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21. Not long after, it fell into a mountainous area in Guangxi, China. All the humans on the plane were killed.

This issue was first aired by The Wall Street Journal. According to the well-known media, flight data from one of the Boeing 737-800 black boxes showed that someone in the cockpit deliberately crashed the plane.

Officials who spoke to ABC News said the plane's wings were not attached and the landing gear was not lowered. The decline is almost perpendicular and that's what makes them believe in the conjecture.

The plane hit the ground so hard, it created a 66-foot-deep hole in the ground.

Quoted from CNBC, Boeing and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) declined to comment. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which is leading the investigation, has also remained silent.

Just so you know, this is the deadliest aviation disaster in mainland China in 28 years.

At the time of the incident, the pilot did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers and nearby aircraft when the drastic descent occurred. One source told Reuters that investigators were looking into whether the crash was a "voluntary" act.

The CAAC said on April 11 in response to rumors on the internet of a deliberate accident that the speculation was "severely misleading to the public" and "interrupting the work of the accident investigation."