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U.S. NTSB team arrives in China for probe of crashed Boeing jet
Updated 20:58, 02-Apr-2022
Rescue workers find the second black box of the crashed Boeing 737-800 plane in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, March 27, 2022. /CFP
A team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board arrived in China on Saturday to assist in the investigation of the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 which crashed on March 21, a reporter from CAAC News learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
The China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed into a mountainous area in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, killing all 132 people on board, which was China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.
According to relevant requirements of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, the U.S., which is a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the country that designed and manufactured the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, can participate in the investigation of the accident, the CAAC News report said.
The major responsibility of the U.S. team is to provide technical support to the investigation from the perspective of the designer and manufacturer of the plane, according to the report.
On the day of the plane crash, the CAAC notified the ICAO and the U.S. NTSB about the basic information of the accident as per relevant procedures, and the NTSB expressed willingness to provide technical support to the investigation.
During the period, the two sides have been in close contact on the specific arrangements for the U.S. personnel to come to China.
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Updated 20:58, 02-Apr-2022
Rescue workers find the second black box of the crashed Boeing 737-800 plane in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, March 27, 2022. /CFP
A team from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board arrived in China on Saturday to assist in the investigation of the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 which crashed on March 21, a reporter from CAAC News learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
The China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed into a mountainous area in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, killing all 132 people on board, which was China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.
According to relevant requirements of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, the U.S., which is a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the country that designed and manufactured the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, can participate in the investigation of the accident, the CAAC News report said.
The major responsibility of the U.S. team is to provide technical support to the investigation from the perspective of the designer and manufacturer of the plane, according to the report.
On the day of the plane crash, the CAAC notified the ICAO and the U.S. NTSB about the basic information of the accident as per relevant procedures, and the NTSB expressed willingness to provide technical support to the investigation.
During the period, the two sides have been in close contact on the specific arrangements for the U.S. personnel to come to China.
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No, Operation Rolling Thunder cannot be considered as carpet-bombing. Operation Rolling Thunder was restricted targeted bombing.
Bridges, rail yards, docks, barracks , supply dumps, lines of communication
included the extensive North Vietnamese radar system, ammunition dumps, and oil storage tank farms were targeted and selected based on a criterion.
Airstrikes were strictly forbidden within 30 nautical miles (60 km) of Hanoi and within 10 nautical miles (20 km) of the port of Haiphong. A thirty-mile buffer zone also extended along the length of the Chinese frontier.
We must remember that at that time , the Korean War that happened more than a decade earlier was still fresh in the memory of the US. The US was very fearful of Chinese direct intervention into the Vietnam conflict.
This was said by President Johnson,"By keeping a lid on all the designated targets, I knew I could keep the control of the war in my own hands. If China reacted to our slow escalation by threatening to retaliate, we’d have plenty of time to ease off the bombing. But this control—so essential for preventing World War III—would be lost the moment we unleashed a total assault on the North—for that would be rape rather than seduction—and then there would be no turning back. The Chinese reaction would be instant and total."
Carpet-bombing or saturated bombing on the other hand is indiscriminate intensive bombing of a large area done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.
The US removed its erstwhile restrictions in 1972 by aerial mining Haiphong port and carpet-bombing Hanoi .
The detente with China through ping-pong diplomacy in 1971 may or may not have influenced the subsequent events of 1972. It's open to debate.
They aided the US hegemonical empire as willing doggies in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and numerous other places and her conclusion is that our reputation is at stake because of a war we never had any influence upon? Really, pass what she is smoking. It must be strong.
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