https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-eastern-737-crash-pilot-nosedive-boeing-stock-51652807600 Hope this is pilot error and not pilot suicide like that Germanwings incident. The details are still being investigated. China media has been completely silent on this. But hey Boeing stock jumped, not today of course but when the news came out.
I remembered years ago, a Silkair BOEING plane flew from Indonesia to Singapore. Midway, the plane dived from 10km high to zero km killing > 100 people in it. The pilot had disciplinary problems, financial problems etc etc etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185
No my bet is on the second officer, the one that's supposed to be on observation duties that day but does have access to the flight cabin. There has been very scant information about this guy and there wasn't even an agreement on his identity, from what I read. The first officer (associate captain) was a highly experienced and well-respected flight instructor who cultivated and taught generations of pilots including the Captain who was also a student of his so I don't think it's him. But then again, you never know what goes on inside of someone's head. Now it's just a matter of how much of the truth China is willing and/or able to reveal. Such a "prestigious" country with one of the highest safety records in aviation history just produced a Germanwings psycho pilot...
%% BA has been going down since 2019. No wonder, as a regulator[or ex regulator] noted on TV, BA knew about the earlier problem because they were trying to sell software to fix that. Part of BA big downtrend this year anyway= bear market. I've flown in BA aircraft a lot , no problem for me \but that does not change my point. Air travel is still very much safer than US auto traffic
Boeing is POS company with a worthless BoD. They should all be fired. Regulatory capture made them lazy AF. Too bad Buffet didn't buy like 20-30% back in March 2020. He could have fixed the crappy management.
Hey now, they just had another successful launch of their own penis rocket, to compete with Bezos's penis rocket. Surely that's worth something.