PU 37: How Not to Report an Aviation Accident

About this episode

This episode discusses the crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 and the surrounding secrecy from the Chinese government.

China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashed into a hill near Wuzhou in 2022, killing 132 people. What do we know about this Boeing 737 crash and what secret is the Chinese government keeping? Punching Upwards , Episode 37 for 24 May 2026 Topics: Aviation / China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS Feed Credits Thanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen , Evgeny Kuznetsov , Vlad A Gouf , Fadi Mansour , Bennet Piater , Eric and Sir Galteran for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it! See Also * Punching Upwards 11: What Happened to UPS Flight 2976? Sources * China Eastern Plane Crash May Have Been Intentional, Reports Say , NBC News , 18 May 2022 * China Eastern plane could deliberately have crashed, sources say , Reuters , 18 May 2022 * Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022, lost altitude and impacted terrain , The Aviation Herald , 21 March 2022 * Letter from the NTSB in response to a FOIA request , NTSB, April 2026 * NTSB report on CVR and FDR data download , NTSB, 1 July 2022 * China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashes en route to Guangzhou , Flightradar24 , 21 March 2022 * Search finds 49,000…

People in this episode

Host: Fabian A. Scherschel

Topics covered

• Aviation
• China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735
• Aviation accidents
• Government secrecy
• Crash investigation

Keywords

• China Eastern Airlines
• aviation accident
• Wuzhou
• Boeing 737
• flight crash
• government secrecy
• NTSB report
• investigation
• 2022 crash

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: China Eastern Airlines, NTSB, NBC News, Reuters, The Aviation Herald, Flightradar24, The Associated Press, FlightGlobal, China Daily

Places: Wuzhou

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