Cover-Up? U.S. Data Suggest 2022 China Plane Crash Caused by Manual Fuel Shutoff

Data released this weekend by America’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggest that someone on board China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 chose to cut off its fuel supply shortly before it nosedived and killed everyone onboard in 2022.

The MU5735 crash occurred in late March 2022 in Guangxi province, China, after the flight departed Kunming en route to Guangzhou. Chinese authorities reported that all 132 people on board died in the crash and have not, to this day, offered any conclusions regarding what happened for the plane to suddenly fall out of the sky. The crash has been the subject of intense debate for years given the otherwise stellar safety record of both China Eastern Airlines and of the plane model, a Boeing 737-800 NG. In addition to failing to offer any information regarding whether mechanical or human error —