On the afternoon of March 21, 2022, Flight MU5735 of China Eastern Airlines, carrying 132 passengers, disappeared from Kunming Changshui to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport. At first, everyone thought that it was just bugs and abnormalities in the flight APP, and some people debunked rumors and even claimed that it had landed in advance. However, I did not expect the worst-case scenario, it has crashed in The territory of Fujian County, Wuzhou, Guangxi, the model is the Boeing 737-800.
Fuselage registration number B-1791
Mu5735 flight last record
The Boeing 737-800, known in China as the Boeing 738, is also written on the ticket and boarding pass, and many people say that the Boeing 737-8 is actually the 737 MAX8 that has been grounded. The most obvious difference between the two is the slightly smaller winglets, the Boeing 738 is upwards, and the Boeing 737-8, that is, the 737MAX8, has wings that are slightly up and down and forked in two segments.
The Boeing 738's winglets are upturned
The winglets of the 737MAX8 are bifurcated
The two Boeing airliners are not of the same generation, and the MCAS system that has been found to be hidden is not installed on the Boeing 738. However, this does not mean that it is absolutely safe, because from the past accidents, the Boeing 738 has a high accident rate abroad. Since 2010, in the past 12 years, there have been 6 crashes that have caused major casualties alone, and more than 10 other large and small accidents, exceeding the record of Boeing 737MAX.
B-1791 featured peacock painting
The first was the crash of Air India Express Flight 812 on May 22, 2010, when a Boeing 737-800 slid off the runway and fell into a valley while landing in Mangalore, India, and an explosion occurred, killing 159 people and killing only seven. On April 13, 2013, a Boeing 737-800 of Indonesian Lion Air crashed into the sea while landing in Bali, and the fuselage was cut in two, and the casualties were unknown. On March 19, 2016, Flydubai 981, a Boeing 737-800 crashed while landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport in Russia, killing 62 people. On February 5, 2020, Turkish low-cost airline Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193, also a Boeing 737-800, flew from Izmir to Istanbul, rushed off the runway and broke in three pieces on landing, killing 3 of the 183 people on board, 179 injured, and only 1 person unharmed.
Air India Express Flight 812
Among the Accidents of the Boeing 737-800, the most well-known was the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 crash on January 8, 2020, when a Boeing 737-800 flying from Tehran to Kiev crashed two minutes after takeoff, killing all 176 people on board, and it was later confirmed that the plane was shot down by a missile. Coupled with the Accident of China Eastern Flight 5735 this afternoon, the Boeing 737-800 has had 6 crashes in 10 years, killing more than 532 people.
Ukraine International Airlines flight 752
As for other large and small accidents of the Boeing 737-800, Xiaobian has already made statistics in the article a month ago, and will not be repeated here. However, it should be mentioned in particular that on March 1 this year, Jiuyuan Airlines flight AQ1305 from Guangzhou to Yichang, Hubei Province, temporarily diverted to Huanghua International Airport in Changsha, Hunan For some reason, it was suspected that there was a cargo compartment fire in the air, fortunately the crew responded properly, and all 105 passengers and crew members on board were safely evacuated, and the accident occurred at that time, which was a Boeing 737-800 numbered B221M.
Divert the B221M from Changsha
Speaking of which, one could argue that zooming in time to a 12-year scale, who hasn't had an accident on an active airliner? This does not prove that the Boeing 737-800 is as unsafe as the 737 MAX. In fact, according to the incomplete statistics of the network public information, from 2006 to the present, the Boeing 737 series airliner has had a total of 36 large and small accidents, of which only 3 are 737MAX, while the Boeing 737-800 has 16.
Boeing 737 Accident Summary (2006-present)
The yellow parts are all 737-800 accidents
You know, the entire Boeing 737 family, including the first generation of the 737-100, 737-200; the second generation of the 737-300/300SP, 737-400, 737-500; the third generation of the 737-600, 737-700/700ER, 737-800, 737-900ER and the fourth generation of the 737 MAX, at least 10, even the 737BBJ business jet, the P-8 "Poseidon" maritime patrol aircraft and the C-40 " Clippers" transport aircraft are based on it, so is the accident rate of the 737-800 a little high?
Since the second half of last year, Boeing has stepped up its public relations efforts, intending to return to the 737MAX airliner on the mainland, and there have been rumors that it will return to the blue sky early this year. Nowadays, the resumption of the 737MAX is not the most important thing, and it is the most urgent thing to stop the entire Boeing 737-88 fleet and conduct a thorough inspection.
The 737MAX will wait