The search was paused Sunday afternoon for a three-minute moment of silence for the 123 passengers and nine crew members.
into a remote mountainous area in southern China last week, killing all 132 people on board.
The remote setting and rainy and muddy conditions have complicated the search for the black boxes and wreckage. Images posted by CGTN, the international arm of CCTV, showed an official holding an orange cylindrical object on site with the words"FLIGHT RECORDER" and"DO NOT OPEN" written on it. It appeared slightly dented but intact.
The cockpit voice recorder, also an orange cylinder, was found two days later on Wednesday. It has been sent to a Beijing lab for examination and analysis, and the flight data recorder was also being sent to the Chinese capital for decoding.
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