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According to Chinese official media, the second “black box” has been retrieved from the disaster of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 last week, which killed all 132 persons on board (March 27).
The recorder, an orange cylinder, was discovered 1.5 metres (5 feet) below by firefighters participating in the search, according to state television CCTV. It was the second black box, according to experts.
After locating the cockpit voice recorder four days ago, searchers turned their attention to the flight data recorder. Investigators should be able to use the two recorders to figure out what caused the jet to crash into a forested mountainside in southern China after plummeting from 29,000 feet (8,800 metres).
Flight MU5735 was on its way from Kunming, in southeastern China, to Guangzhou, a major metropolis and export manufacturing hub near Hong Kong, when it crashed on Monday. Officials said an air traffic controller attempted to contact the pilots numerous times after witnessing the plane’s altitude drop significantly, but received no response.
The second black box of crashed China Eastern plane recovered- state media, reports AFP
— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2022
The finding of the flight data recorder was reported by CCTV and the official Xinhua news agency, citing officials.
China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries, one of China’s four major airlines, have grounded all of their 737-800 aircraft, a total of 223 planes. The airline stated that the grounding was merely a precaution and not an indication of a problem.
