
2nd black box found as investigators search for answers in China plane crash
ABC News
The first black box found earlier was the voice data recorder, officials said.
The second black box from China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was found Sunday as investigators try to piece together what caused the passenger plane to plunge straight into the ground, killing all 132 on board.
The second black box, the flight data recorder, was discovered at the crash site about 1.5 meters under the soil at about 9 a.m. local time, according to state-owned media outlets CCTV and Xinhua.
The first black box was recovered on March 23. The first black box contained the voice data recorder, according to an official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
The flight data recorder was found on the eastern side of the impact crater, according to state-run media, which is 100-feet wide and 66-feet deep.