(Crash of China Eastern Airlines plane) The crashed plane of China Eastern Airlines found a black box and continued to search underground
China News Agency, Wuzhou, Guangxi, March 23 (Reporter Meng Mingming, Huang Lingyan, Huang Yanmei) The National Emergency Response Headquarters announced at 17:00 on the 23rd that one of the black boxes of the crashed China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 has been found.
The investigation team is using professional equipment to detect the area below the ground at the accident site, and will expand the search radius with the main impact point as the center, and pull the net to search for another flight recorder.
The press conference informed that a flight recorder was found at the rescue site that afternoon.
Due to the serious damage to the appearance of the recorder, the forward investigation team is confirming whether it is a data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder.
Mao Yanfeng, director of the Aviation Accident Investigation Center of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that when the plane crashed, the weather on the route was airworthy and there was no dangerous weather.
According to the ground-to-air communication records between the crew and the air traffic control unit, the crew and the air traffic control unit maintained normal communication since the plane took off from Kunming and before the sudden drop in altitude on the route.
According to the press conference, the flight crew of the flight consisted of 3 people, 1 captain and 2 co-pilots.
The three pilots' flight licenses and health certificates are all within the validity period, in good health, with complete flight experience, and meet the flight requirements.
Several pilots were generally doing well.
It is reported that the aircraft was introduced on June 22, 2015. The aircraft maintenance has been strictly implemented in accordance with the maintenance technical plan, and the technical condition is stable and normal.
Before takeoff, the aircraft complies with maintenance release standards and airworthiness requirements.
At the time of the press release, it was raining lightly at the crash site. In the temporary rescue command center, various relief materials were still being continuously transported to the scene by the villagers' motorcycles.
Around the core area of the crash site, multiple rescue teams are on standby, entering the scene at any time for search and rescue.
Zhang Chaowei, the captain of the Condor rescue team from Henan, said that he had participated in many disaster search and rescue operations. After learning of the air crash, he set out from Henan and arrived at the crash site on the afternoon of the 22nd.
"The most feared thing in rescue is the destruction of the traces of the accident. The accident site is in the mountains, and the rainy weather will increase the difficulty of the disaster accident investigation." Zhang Chaowei said.
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