A Chinese aviation official said Wednesday that one of the two “black box” recorders had been found with its casing severely damaged, two days after a China Eastern flight crashed in the country’s south with 132 people on board.
By NG HAN GUAN and KEN MORITSUGU
“This will provide important evidence as to the cause of the accident,” he said. Investigators will next “continue to go all-out to find the flight data recorder to provide even more comprehensive data support to reconstruct the entire incident,” he said. Wallets and identity and bank cards have been found and human remains were also recovered Wednesday, Zheng Xi, head of the fire and rescue service in the Guangxi autonomous region where the plane crashed, told reporters.“With the rain, visibility has been poor, introducing a certain degree of difficulty into the rescue operation,” he said.
“It’s invaluable information, especially since this crew apparently failed to communicate on their way down,” said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. crash investigator, the National Transportation Safety Board. “I hope they get good voice on that recorder, because that will tell us exactly what was going on in the cockpit.”
“I’m just going in there to take a look. Am I breaking the law?” she said. The woman and a companion were then escorted away and reporters told to stop filming.
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