China E190 type aircraft involved in more accidents?

For three consecutive days after the Yichun crash in Hailongjiang, a rumor spread from China that the same type of aircraft had experienced additional accidents. Many passengers refused to take flights after hearing about the repairs that were being done. Thus, the flights were forced to be canceled. Airlines referred the maintenance as a “pure coincidence”.

Site of the August 24 plane crash in Yichun Airport. (Getty Image)

Site of the August 24 plane crash in Yichun Airport. (Reuters)

At 9:00 pm on August 24 an airplane crash occurred at Yichun Airport; 42 people out of 96 passengers were killed. The aircraft involved was an E190 model made in Brazil. On August 25 at 11 am, a Tianjin Airlines flight from Xi'an to Haikou reportedly skidded off a runway in Nanning and. The airport was closed for more than 1 hour. Again, the model was an E190. On August 26, Nanjing International Airport, the 17 o'clock flight GS7440 to Xi'an had a sudden mechanical failure and passengers who had check-in over an hour before were asked to step down off the aircraft. The flight was finally canceled— and the model was also an E190.

Huaxi City Daily said that for 3 consecutive days, E190 became the dark shadow on the passengers' mind.

It also pointed out that on August 26, the airlines scheduled to repair the plane the same night and fly to Xian the following day. However, the delayed passengers questioned the safety of the E190 jet after being repaired and refused to board it. As a result, the airlines were forced to cancel the flight.

It is learned that since the Baotou air crash in 2004, the civil aviation sector has maintained more than 2000 days of "zero accidents" flight recorded. But now, the record has been broken by the Yichun crash on August 24.