Desk Report
Publish: 23 Mar 2022, 04:33 pm
Photo: Collected
A black box from the crashed
China Eastern airliner was recovered on Wednesday (Mar 23) as investigators try
to piece together what made a jet carrying 132 passengers nosedive into a mountainside
in southern China.
The cause of the disaster has
mystified aviation authorities who have scoured rugged terrain for clues,
finding no survivors from what is almost certain to be China's deadliest plane
crash in nearly 30 years.
A flight recorder "from
China Eastern MU5735 was found", Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China's
aviation authority, told reporters on Wednesday, although state media later
said it was badly damaged.
The Boeing 737-800 is equipped
with two flight recorders: One in the rear passenger cabin tracking flight
data, and the other a cockpit voice recorder.
"At present, it is unclear
whether it is a data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder," that has been
found, Mao Yanfeng, an official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China
(CAAC), said according to state media.
Officials have still refrained
from declaring all of the passengers dead despite the pulverised mass of
twisted metal and charred belongings that has greeted recovery teams on the
mountainside.
On Wednesday afternoon, AFP
reporters saw a small crowd of people guided by officials across the police
cordon that marks entry to the site, huddled under umbrellas in the driving
rain.
One middle-aged man later
confirmed that he was the relative of someone in the fight, and asked the media
not to crowd around him.
The Boeing 737-800 plane went
down near Wuzhou in southern China on Monday afternoon after losing contact
with air traffic control.
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