[The Epoch Times, April 5, 2022](The Epoch Times reporter Xu Manyuan in Los Angeles reported) A task force sent by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived in China on April 2 (last Saturday) to participate in theEastern Airlinescrashed airlinerIn the Boeing 737-800NG accident investigation, the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C. is also assisting the Chinese sideblack boxdownload of recorded data. However, there are still many speculations and analyses on the Internet, and news that Zhang Zhengping, the co-pilot of the crashed flight, left a suicide note and committed suicide.
Chang Su (pseudonym), a former employee of Continental Airlines who now lives in the United States, told The Epoch Times: “It doesn’t look like something written by someone in the industry. It’s shoddy. I can’t believe it.”
According to a viral post on social network Twitter, China Eastern Airlines 737MU5735 flightThe co-pilot Zhang Zhengping committed suicide in revenge, causing the plane to crash.Exposed suicide note content accusationEastern AirlinesThe leadership squeezed employees and complained that China’s economy was in a bubble. He failed to invest in Evergrande Real Estate, and all his savings went to zero. Zhang Zhengping shouted the last sentence before the crash: “I’m going down, I don’t know if it’s hell or heaven.”
Chang Su analyzed that there are many doubts in this online article.
First, according to a report by China Civil Aviation Network in December 2018 titled “Welcome to the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up Experienced by the Captain of China Eastern Airlines”, Zhang Zhengping was still the captain at that time, and he was the “five-star captain” of China Eastern Airlines. Affirmation and admiration. Chang Su said that the China Civil Aviation Network released official news. The reporter can interview and even praise Zhang Zhengping, which shows that he is still the five-star captain of China Eastern Airlines at least at the end of 2018.
In addition, the introduction of Zhang Zhengping on China Eastern Airlines’ website also mentioned that Zhang Zhengping “has been rated as an advanced safety individual of Yunnan Company for 7 times…. In 2011, he was awarded the Meritorious Pilot Medal of the Civil Aviation Administration and became the first batch of five-star captains of China Eastern Airlines. In 2015 He was awarded the Yunnan Province May 1st Labor Medal in 2010…” This is also evidenced by the fact that “Zhang Zhengping is a meritorious pilot of Yunnan Airlines, because after the merger of China Eastern Airlines and Yunhang, he was downgraded to a co-pilot” This kind of online legend does not hold. . The merger of China Eastern Airlines and Yunnan Airlines was in 2002, and Zhang Zhengping was awarded the title of Meritorious Pilot in 2011.
As for why Zhang Zhengping is so senior, but he was the co-pilot when the plane crashed? According to the information obtained by Chang Su, it is possible that Zhang Zhengping made a mistake in flight last year and was demoted to co-pilot. However, this statement has not been officially confirmed by China Eastern Airlines.
Chang Su believes that the second reason for exposing Zhang Zhengping’s suicide note online is that there is even the last sentence that Zhang Zhengping shouted before the crash. Chang Su asked, “I don’t know how Zhang Zhengping shouted? If it was on the radio, it should have been heard by many people, and it would have spread long ago; if it was not on the radio, so far, the NTSB has It is also helping the Civil Aviation Administration of China download the cockpit voice recorder (data) of 5735 in its Washington laboratory, how do other people know what it records?”
Third, the rumored online article described what happened in the cockpit before the crash, and said that “both Guangzhou and Yunnan control towers heard the whole process”. Chang Su thinks this is absurd, because at that time the plane was in the cruise phase, and the radio contact should be from Guangzhou. Usually, the aircraft will only contact Guangzhou for approach when the aircraft is preparing to “approach” (descent and align with the runway), and will establish contact with the Guangzhou Tower before it is ready to land.
It is even more strange that the Yunnan control tower can “hear the whole process in the cockpit”. The plane is far away from Kunming, and it will not maintain radio contact with the Kunming control tower, nor can it be contacted because it is too far away.”If the ground can hear what’s going on in the cockpit, there’s something called a cockpit voice recorder,” he said.black boxwhat to do? Not to mention bothering the Americans to help crack it. “
Fourthly, Chang Su said: “The statement in this web article that ‘Zhang Zhengping pulls the joystick by hand to make the nose dive straight down’ is ridiculous. Pulling the joystick by hand makes the aircraft look up, and pushing the joystick forward will make the aircraft look up. Let the plane dive.” As for the following statement of “snatch the joystick”, he asked, “How do you grab the joystick of the airplane? Think it’s the steering wheel of the car?” ” is followed by an icon somewhat similar to the side stick of an Airbus plane, which is completely different from the control panel directly in front of a Boeing pilot.
Chang Su also analyzed the details of the text and deduced that this online article probably did not come from Chinese civil aviation practitioners. He said that the Civil Aviation Administration of China awarded the title and medal of “Meritorious Pilots” to the pilots who have flown more than 26,000 hours safely and who have spent no less than half of their flight time as captain. The term “meritorious driver” mentioned in the online article is different from the general name in the industry, and it sounds strange.
In addition, the two names of Yunnan Airlines and Yunhang mentioned in the article are old names many years ago, and Yunhang no longer exists after 2002. Now people in the public or the aviation industry are talking about China Eastern Airlines Yunnan or Yunnan Company. I feel that the person who wrote this post may not have figured out the relationship between Yunnan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines.
Another thing that puzzled Chang Su is that the second part of the suicide note circulating on the Internet mentioned “complaining about the central government’s economic policy” and Evergrande Real Estate, and even directly attacked Xi Jinping, which made the “revelation” more powerful. mean.
However, Chang Su said: “I will not deny this point. China Eastern Airlines is like a microcosm of today’s Chinese society, where the elites oppress the people at the bottom (employees). It’s nothing new for all to see.”
Chang Su said that the above analysis is aimed at the article itself. As for the real cause of the crash of MU5735, no possibility can be ruled out until the truth of the investigation results of the air crash comes out, but no reasoning and speculation can become the reason. Conclusion. For the deceased and the living, people should also retain a kind heart. He said: “Although it is common for the CCP to cover up the truth, but seeing its regime in turmoil and chaos, will the day when the truth be revealed will be far away?”
Responsible editor: Fang Ping#