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This document pertains to related information as prepared in DNI Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena dated 2021 June 25

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WARNING: NOTE GRAF FOUR CLAIM THAT "THE TWO DAYS BEFORE THE
DISASTER, THE PILOTS CLEARLY WROTE ON THE FLIGHT LOG BOOK
THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE PLANE."
SERIAL: HK412053792
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PASS: COPY TO AD
COUNTRY: PRC
SUBJ: COPILOT'S BROTHER SPEAKS ON GUILIN AIR DISASTER
SOURCE: HONG KONG TA KUNG PAO IN CHINESE 3 DEC 92 P 6
TEXT:

//(("SPECIAL DISPATCH" FROM GUANGZHOU ON 2 DECEMBER BY STAFF
REPORTER: "REFLECTION ON THE AIR DISASTER--INTERVIEWING WEN
WENXUNG. YOUNGER BROTHER OF COPILOT OF GUILIN CRASHED PLANE"))

((TEXT)) HE SUSPENDED HIS TEACHING JOB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA IN THE UNITED STATES AND WENT TO GUILIN WHERE THE
DISASTER OCCURRED. AFTER RETURNING FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRASH
WHERE A MEMORIAL CEREMONY HAD BEEN HELD FOR HIS BROTHER, HE SAT
BEFORE THIS STAFF REPORTER, LOOKING HEAVY-HEARTED AND DEPRESSED. HE
TALKED ABOUT THE QUESTIONABLE POINTS, ABOUT THE LESSON, AND ABOUT
HIS FEELINGS.... HE IS WANG WENXIANG, BROTHER OF WANG WENHUA, THE
COPILOT OF THE 24 NOVEMBER AIR CRASH.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE PLANET ((SUBHEAD))

WANG WENXIANG QUIETLY OPENED THE CERTIFICAIE, WHICH WAS AWARDED
TO HIS DECEASED BROTHER BY THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY. IT READS:
NAME: WANG WENHUA; HOME: JIANGSU; DATE OF BIRTH: SEPTEMBER 1951;
PROFESSION: FIRST PILOT. REMARKS: HI WAS AWARDED WITH THE SECOND-
CLASS SAFE PILOT MEDAL, AND AS OF THE END OF 1991, HE SAFELY FLEW
FOR A TOTAL OF 8,019 HOURS. THIS CERTIFICATE IS SIMILAR TO
NEWSPAPER REPORTS ABOUT FLIGHT CAPTAIN ZHOU JINAN IN THAT THEY WERE
BOTH VERY EXPERIENCED, POSSESSED EXCELLENT EXPERTISE, AND WERE IN
GOOD SHAPE. MOREOVER, WANG WENXIANG QUOTED THE RELEVANT PERSONNEL
OF THE GUANGZHOU AVIATION AUTHORITY AS SAYING THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE
THAT THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY THE PILOTS' ACTIONS AND THAT IT WAS
A VERY SPECIAL ACCIDENT. THEREFORE, HE COULD NOT HELP ASKING: WHAT
WAS THE CAUSE OF THE AIR DISASTER, ONE OF THE MOST DISASTROUS ONES
IN WORLD AVIATION HISTORY?

HE TOLD THIS REPORTER, WITHOUT CONCEALING HIS FEELINGS, THAT FROM
HIS INQUIRIES AT VARIOUS QUARTERS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, HE HAS
LEARNED THAT ON 22 AND 23 NOVEMBER, THE TWO DAYS BEFORE THE
DISASTER, THE PILOTS CLEARLY WROTE ON THE FLIGHT LOG BOOK THAT
SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE PLANE. WANG WENXIANG STRESSED THAT HE
WAS NOT AN AVIATION EXPERT AND SAID THAT ALL SPECULATIONS WERE
GUESSWORK BEFORE AN AFFIRMATIVE EXPLANATION OF THE CAUSE OF THE
DISASTER COULD BE DERIVED FROM THE BLACK BOX.

WANG SAYS. HOWEVER, THAT IF THE BLACK BOX'S DATA PROVE THAT THE
FAULT WAS IN THE PLANE, AND IF THE CAUSE TALLIES WITH THE PROBLEM
RECORDED ON THE FLIGHT LOG, HE HAS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE
AIRLINE HAD NEGLECTED ELIMINATING THE FAULTS AND MAINTAINING THE
PLANE, OR THAT THE AIRPLANE MANUFACTURER HAD NEGLECTED IN THE
PROCESS OF DESIGNING THE SHAPE OF THE PLANE OR IN ASSEMBLING IT.

DRAW A LESSON FROM IT AND ARRANGE FOR RIGOROUS MANAGMENT.
((SUBHEAD))

ALTHOUGH THE BLACK BOX HAS BEEN FOUND, THE CAUSE OF THE 24
NOVEMBER AIR DISASTER IS STILL PUZZLING. SOHE PEOPLE SAY THAT IN
EARLY NOVEMBER, UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS ONCE FLEW OVER THE SCENE
WHERE THE DISASTER OCCURRED. AT THAT TIME, LOCAL PAPERS GAVE
SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE INCIDENT.

WAS THE DISASTER RELATED TO THE UFO'S? WANG WENKIANG SAID HE DID
NOT BELIEVE IT. HE DID NOT READ THOSE REPORTS BUT ONLY HEARD OF
THEM. HE SAID HE ALSO HEARD MANY REPORTS ABOUT UFO'S IN THE UNITED
STATES BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC PROOF.
TKEREFORE, HE SAID IT WAS NOT REALISTIC TO CONNECT THE CAUSE OF THE
DISASTER WITH THE UFO'S.

DOES BE DOUBT THE ADVANCED DESIGN OF THE PLANE? WANG WENXIANG
ADMITTED THAT THE CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION ((CAAC)) NOW
PURCHASES PLANES WITH BETT£R QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE THAN ANYTIME IN
THE PAST. SINCE CHINA'S REFORM AND OPENING UP, THE CAAC HAS BEEN
GRADUALLY DEVEIDPING IN THE DIRECTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE
AND HAS NOT HARBORED ANY MISGIVINGS WITH REGARD TO IMPORTING NEW
TYPES AND MODELS OF PLANES. HOWEVER, HE MAINTAINED THAT WHILE
IMPORTING ADVANCED AIRPLANES, CAAC MUST ESTABLISH A COMPLETE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND THAT EQUIPMENT FOR PLANE MAINTENANCE AND
TECHNICAL PERSONNEL MUST CATCH UP.

LOOK INTO THE CAUSE THOROUGHLY TO AVOID RECURRENCE ((SUBHEAD))

LIKE FAMILY HEKBERS OF MOST OTHER VICTIMS, WANG WENXIANG, SAD
FROM THE BEREAVEMENT OF HIS BROTHER, SAID CALMLY: NOW THAT THE
DISASTER HAS OCCURRED AND THE DECEASED CANNOT COME BACK TO LIFE, WE
ONLY HOPE THE AIRLINE WILL SERIOUSLY AND STRICTLY LOOK INTO THE ROOT
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER AND THAT RELEVANT QUARTERS, INCLUDING THE
AIRLINE AND THE AIRPLANE MANUFACTURER, WILL DRAW A LESSON FROM THE
DISASTER IN ORDER TO AVOID THE RECURRENCE OF THIS KIND OF VICIOUS
DISASTER.

HE ALSO HADE A VEILED CRITICISH OF THE TIMELINESS AND
TRANSPARENCE OF THE MEDIA'S REPORTS AFTER THE DISASTER OCCURRED. HE
SAID THAT SINCE CHINA PURSUES REFORM AND OPENING UP IN VARIOUS
ASPECTS, INCLUDING NEWS REPORTING, IT SHOULD, WITH AN ATITUDE OF
REFORM, REPORT THE SITUATION TRUTHFULLY AND QUICKLY. CHINA SOUTHERN
AIRLINES IS AN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE AND FLIES MANY INTERNATIONAL
AIR ROUTES. MOREOVER, IT IS OPENING UP THE BROAD INTERNATIONAL
MARKET. THEREFORE, AS A FAHILY MEMBER OF THE DISASTER VICTIM, HE
HOPED RELEVANT AUTHORITIES WOULD, PROCEEDING FROM INTERNATIONAL
PRACTICE AND FROM THE ANGLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF THE
AIRLINE ITSELF. APPROPRIATELY HANDLE THE QUESTION OF CONSOLING
FAMILY MEMBERS OF DISASTER VICTIHS AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE MASS
MEDIA.

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