China turned around its air safety record, but how safe is it?

All 132 people on board China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 were killed when the Boeing 737-800 plunged from a cruising altitude into a hillside in southern China on March 21, sending shock waves across the country. The accident spelled an end to more than 100 million straight hours of safe flying by Chinese carriers, which the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said in late February was a world record. It was a rare tragedy after a fairly safe decade for the country’s aviation…

Source: SCMP