China Crash: 36 Hours Later, No Survivors Found
NDTV
"Up to now, search and rescue work has not found any survivors," Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at China's aviation authority said.
Crash investigators on Tuesday said they do not yet know why a China Eastern jet carrying 132 people plunged from sky, with recovery teams still scouring a forested mountainside for the flight recorders from the pulverised Boeing aircraft.
The velocity of the crash, which left twisted metal and scattered passengers' belongings across a swathe of forest, meant no survivors had been found nearly 36 hours after Monday's crash.
It is China's deadliest air disaster in three decades, in a country with an enviable air safety record.
"With the current information, we are unable to make a clear judgment on the cause of the accident," Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at China's aviation authority, said late Tuesday -- adding that the focus is now on "the search for flight recorders."
