China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 · Baotou
On November 21, 2004, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (Baotou). 53 people died.
- Date
- November 21, 2004
- Place
- Baotou
- Operator
- China Eastern Airlines
- Killed
- 53
- Position
- 40.651°N, 109.842°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q3267305
From Wikipedia
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 (CES5210/MU5210), also known as the Baotou Air Disaster, was a scheduled flight from Baotou in Inner Mongolia, China, to Shanghai, with a planned stopover at Beijing. On 21 November 2004, just two minutes after takeoff from Baotou, the Bombardier CRJ200ER fell from the sky and crashed into a lake in Nanhai Park, next to the airport, killing all 53 people on board and two more on the ground.
An investigation by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) revealed that the plane had not been deiced by the ground crew while it was parked on the tarmac. Ice accumulation on the wings caused the plane to lose its lift, causing the crash. It is the deadliest accident involving a CRJ100/200 series, and was the deadliest in China Eastern Airlines' history at that time until the crash of Flight 5735 on 21 March 2022, which killed 132 crew and passengers.
Text from Wikipedia, “China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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