Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane with 132 on board crashes, officials say I ABC7" video.

I'd certainly recommend waiting before jumping to conclusions. This certainly could be a maintenance issue due to the lax standards in place by the airlines, but it could just as easily be too many sensor failures for the plane to handle or pilot error. Hopefully, there's a report released in the future that contains enough information for people to have confidence in their findings.
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I'd wait to see what the results of the investigation gives us. Boeing planes are generally safe, just less so with some of the more recent models when Boeing was cutting back on safety standards to free up more money for stock buybacks and moving production to the Carolinas.
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It's probably nothing of the sort. We should wait until there's more information, but sinc this is China we may never get a truly accurate picture of what happened as the state owns part of the airline. I used to live there and the safety standards for planes are lax, they'll go with more than the acceptable fuel leaking and the like. The planes look clean and feel safe, but they're not necessarily properly maintained. Between bribes and lax standards it could well be that there was just a failure in one of the sensors or onboard computer that had a fix that was never applied. Still, we should take this with a grain of salt and see what the report says.
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@oneviwatara9384 That's rare. It's been over 20 years since the last airline crash in the US killed more than a hundred. Since then only one crash killed 50 or more and the next largest crash killed 49 from what I'm seeing. The fact of the matter is that US airlines are as safe as possible, the number of individuals killed in crashes and mishaps is statistically indistinguishable from 0 and many years it is zero.
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@MrBurns-tf4if Having lived over there and spoken to people who had relatives flying, it's most likely improper maintenance, the same way that when there's a crash in the US it's virtually always either improper maintenance or errors by the flight crew. Generally speaking, plains overall are engineered to be quite safe and very conservative, issues like the 737-MAX notwithstanding, traveling via plain is by far the safest way of getting between two distant points. If it did do a nose dive like that, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of issue with the sensors that the pilots were unable to overcome in time. But, hopefully the government releases a thorough and accurate report, not necessarily a given in the PRC where the state owns part of most businesses and controls the press pretty tightly.
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