China 's equivalent of Twitter becomes the main source of news as state media are slow to report the crash . Chinese officials put a brave face on their response . They said they were investigating what caused the plane and that it was not an accident, but rather pilot error. Chinese netizen : ` `` It 's not the faster , the better , '' Sun Zhang , a railway professor at Tongji University in Shanghai and a long-time railway ministry consultant , told CNN last month . ` Today 's China is a bullet train racing through a thunderstorm -- and we are all passengers onboard ''
China 's equivalent of Twitter becomes the main source of news as state media are slow to report the crash . Chinese officials put a brave face on their response . They said they were investigating what caused the plane and that it was not an accident, but rather pilot error. Chinese netizen : ` ` Today 's China is a bullet train racing through a thunderstorm -- and we are all passengers onboard ''