WUZHOU, China — A black box from the crashed
China Eastern airliner was recovered on
Wednesday as investigators try to determine what made the jet carrying 132
passengers nosedive into a mountainside in southern China.
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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.
Aviation officials
confirmed they had found a black box they believed to be the cockpit voice
recorder, which should provide important clues to the cause of the crash.
Zhu Tao, an
official at
China’s aviation authority, told reporters that the exterior was
“severely damaged, and the storage unit was also damaged to a certain extent,
but it was relatively complete”.
The stricken
jet, a Boeing 737-800, was equipped with two recorders: one in the rear
passenger cabin tracking flight data, and the other a cockpit voice recorder.
Rescuers are still
looking for the other recorder.
Officials have
not declared all of the passengers dead despite the pulverized mass of twisted
metal and charred belongings that recovery teams found at the crash site.
Zheng Xi, head
of the area’s rescue service, said Wednesday evening that some human remains
had been found.
Earlier in the
day 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 on the flight, and
asked the media not to crowd around him.
Rescue work is
ongoing across the huge 45,200 square meter crash zone.
Orange-clad rescuers
have been using dogs, drones, and scanners to scour the debris scattered across
the mountainside.
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