Chinese state media said the second “black box” has been recovered from the crashed China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed 132 people last week.
Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box, the flight data recorder from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in southern China.
Flight MU5735 crashed on Monday, killing all 132 people on board. All 123 passengers and nine crew members were Chinese nationals.
The black box, which could shed light on the cause of the crash, has been sent to Beijing for examination and analysis.The first black box, the cockpit voice recorder was delivered to experts in the Chinese capital after being found on Wednesday.
According to experts,It was too soon to determine the cause of the crash, and crashes are usually the result of a combination of factors.
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The plane was equipped with two flight recorders, a cockpit voice recorder and one in the rear passenger cabin tracking flight data. The second black box was dug out of a slope at the crash site about 9:20 a.m. (0120 GMT) in muddy conditions after rain in recent days, The Trumpet gathered.
The device, part of which was badly damaged, was recovered 1.5 metres (5 feet) underground and 40 metres (130 feet) from the point of impact, said Zhu Tao, head of aviation safety at the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
The Boeing 737-800 plane went down near Wuzhou in southern China on Monday afternoon after losing contact with air traffic control. Tracking website FlightRadar24 showed the jet sharply dropped from an altitude of 29,100 to 7,850 feet (about 8,900 to 2,400 metres) in just over a minute.
The tracker said after a brief upswing, it dropped again to 3,225 feet, there is no data for the flight after 2:22 pm. The Chinese Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) on Saturday evening said that all of the people on board the aircraft had died and that almost all their identities had been confirmed through DNA testing
