Second black box of China Eastern plane still not found
Chinese emergency services have not found the second black box of the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week with 132 people on board, officials said Saturday.
But they have found an emergency locator transmitter from the plane that had been near where the second black box, the flight data recorder, was installed, Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, told reporters, Reuters reported.
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The team is also searching for the data module of the flight data recorder itself.
The other black box, the cockpit voice recorder, was found Wednesday and has been sent to Beijing for expert examination.
Flight MU5735 was traveling Monday from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when the Boeing 737-800 plummeted from its cruising altitude to crash in a heavily forested area of the Guangxi region.
A total of 120 people have been identified from samples taken at the site, commented Zheng Xi, chief of the Guangxi fire and rescue department. None of the major components of common explosives were detected in the wreckage, he said.
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