China plane crash: Second black box recovered, says state media
India Today
The second black box of the Chinese plane that crashed on Monday has been recovered, Chinese state media reported on Sunday.
A China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 132 people on board crashed into the mountains outside the southern Chinese city of Wuzhou on Monday. There were no survivors and an investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.
A black box, an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft, is used to aid investigations in the case of accidents. After the Chinese plane crashed, a search was launched for the two black boxes carried by the Boeing 737-800.
The first one - the cockpit voice recorder - was found, although damaged, on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Chinese state media reported that the second black box of the crashed plane has also been recovered. Construction excavators had dug into the crash site on Saturday in the search for wreckage, remains and the second black box, the flight data recorder.
The flight data recorder records information about speed, altitude, direction up or down, pilot actions and performance of key systems.
CGTN, a Chinese state-run TV news service, tweeted on Sunday, "Experts at the China Eastern Airlines flight crash site confirm the recovery of the second black box."
Footage shows spot of second black box of China's crashed jet. #MU5735 pic.twitter.com/YaRVhzScQ4
