China Finds Second Black Box Of Crashed China Eastern Flight, State Media Reports

According to a report by news agency AFP, the plane had two flight recorders. One of them recorded the flight data like speed, altitude, and heading. And the other one was a cockpit voice recorder.

(FILES) This file photo was taken on March 24, 2022, shows rescue workers combing through the site of where China Eastern flight MU5375 crashed on March 21, near Wuzhou in southwestern China’s Guangxi province. The second black box has been recovered from a crashed China Eastern passenger plane, state media reported on March 27, 2022. (AFP)

New Delhi: The second black box of the Chinese flight that crashed earlier this week was found by the search team, confirmed state media Xinhua news agency on Sunday.

"The second black box from China Eastern flight MU5735 was recovered on March 27," Xinhua news agency reported as per AFP.

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"The second black box from China Eastern flight MU5735 was recovered on March 27," Xinhua news agency reported.

The jet was flying between Kunming and Guangzhou on Monday when it crashed into a mountainside with 132 people on board, all of whom were killed.

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The flight number MU5735 of Boeing 737-800 was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members from Kunming to Guangzhou on Monday when it nosedived into a mountainside a few minutes before landing.

According to a report by news agency AFP, the plane had two flight recorders. One of them recorded the flight data like speed, altitude, and heading. And the other one was a cockpit voice recorder.

The voice recorder was found on Wednesday and is under analysis in Beijing, and the other flight recorder is found today.

The investigators are expecting to soon find out the reason for the plane crash now that both the black boxes have been recovered as it descended by 6,000 meters in less than a minute.

So far, the search teams have recovered wallets and ID cards of all the passengers from the crash site to be able to identify the victims, but the dead bodies of neither the passengers nor the crew members have been found yet.

The information was confirmed by the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration on Saturday night, as per AFP.

As the reason for the crash remains unknown, the director of the civil aviation accident investigation department, Mao Yanfeng told reporters that there were “no dangerous weather” conditions on the plane’s route at the time crash.