Flight Recorder Data Shows Fuel Supply Cut Off Before Deadly China Plane Crash That Killed 132

Despite the damage to data recordings, investigators recovered enough flight data to reconstruct the aircraft’s final minutes.

Fragments of wreckage of the China Eastern passenger jet which crashed near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Province on March 21, 2022. CNS/AFP via Getty Images

A Chinese jet’s flight controls were still being moved during its final dive and both engine fuel switches were moved to the cutoff position before the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed into a mountainside in southern China in 2022, according to a newly released National Transportation Safety Board report.

The March 21, 2022, crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 killed all 132 people aboard.