{"id":478071,"date":"2022-03-24T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T03:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478071"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T04:09:15","slug":"chinese-jet-nearly-hit-speed-of-sound-in-final-moments-before-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-jet-nearly-hit-speed-of-sound-in-final-moments-before-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese jet nearly hit speed of sound in final moments before crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet that crashed Monday was traveling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of flight-track data. <\/p>\n<p>Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and damage a plane\u2019s data and voice recorders that are designed to withstand most crashes. One of the two black boxes was located Wednesday, officials in China said. <\/p>\n<p>The Boeing Co. 737-800 was knifing through the air at more than 640 miles (966 kilometers) per hour, and at times may have exceeded 700 mph, according to data from Flightradar24, a website that tracks planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet that crashed Monday was traveling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of flight-track data. Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and damage a plane\u2019s data and voice recorders that are designed to withstand most crashes. One of the two black boxes was located Wednesday, officials in China said. The Boeing Co. 737-800 was knifing through the air at more than 640 miles (966 kilometers) per hour, and at times may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}