(Crash of China Eastern Airlines) China Eastern Airlines accident: the second black box data storage unit is in good condition and the compensation work is officially started

　　China News Service, Wuzhou, March 27 (Yang Chen, Zhang Wenqian, Chen Qiuxia, Qin Lin) "3.21" China Eastern Airlines MU5735 aircraft flight accident National Emergency Response Headquarters held a press conference on the 27th to report that the second part of the crashed plane has been found. Black box, the appearance of the data storage unit is relatively intact.

As of 12:00 on the same day, a total of 33,777 pieces of aircraft wreckage and debris have been recovered from the crash site.

　　Zheng Xi, head of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Fire Rescue Corps, introduced that at about 9:20 on the 27th, a search team conducted manual fine excavation at a location 5 degrees south by east of the impact point in the core area and 40 meters away from the impact point.

When fire and rescue personnel dug to a depth of about 1.5 meters below the surface, after opening a tree root, they found a cylindrical metal tank wrapped in mud with only a little orange exposed.

After purging and cleaning the dust on the surface of the metal tank, a clear English logo was revealed.

The metal can was quickly handed over to civil aviation experts for repeated identification and confirmed to be the second black box of the crashed plane.

　　According to Zhu Tao, Aviation Safety Inspector of the Civil Aviation Administration of China and Director of the Aviation Safety Office, the above-mentioned orange cylindrical object is the flight data recorder storage unit.

After inspection, other parts of the recorder were seriously damaged, and the appearance of the data storage unit was relatively intact.

At present, part of the storage unit of the recorder has been sent to a professional laboratory for decoding.

　　It is reported that the data in the flight data recorder can provide real and objective evidence for the analysis of the cause of the accident.

In the later stage, the investigators need to combine the data of the two recorders, as well as the evidence of the on-site investigation, the air traffic control radar data, the land-air communication between the crew and the air traffic control unit, the data link transmission information between the aircraft and the ground, and witness interviews. Only by comprehensive analysis and judgment can the cause of the accident be more objectively and accurately analyzed.

　　It is also reported that rescuers have found new video related to the accident about 8 kilometers north of the incident site by visiting and looking for witnesses.

　　March 27 is the seventh day after the crash of China Eastern Airlines, and it is also the traditional "first seven" in China.

On the same day, the emergency response headquarters held a mourning event at the search and rescue site where the incident occurred.

At the same time, at the request of the families of the passengers who died, some family members of the passengers were organized to conduct mourning activities in various forms at the search and rescue site, funeral homes and other places.

As of 12:00 on March 27, a total of 632 family members of the victims have been transported to the scene to offer condolences in batches.

　　According to Yin Ping, a psychological rescue expert for the "3.21" China Eastern Airlines flight accident, the psychological assistance team started work on the night of the accident, and was divided into 12 teams, who stayed in 11 family-replacement hotels (7 in Wuzhou City, 7 in Tengzhou). 4 in the county) and 1 worship site at the scene of the incident, connecting a family in a group of two people to provide full psychological assistance services.

　　Yin Ping said that family members need to understand and accompany them warmly, so that the parties can vent their emotions naturally, and give appropriate support to help them through this difficult journey.

Do not disturb too much, so as not to cause secondary harm to the parties.

　　At the same time, China Eastern Airlines has officially started the compensation work.

Liu Xiaodong, director of the publicity department of China Eastern Airlines Group, said that the company will fully respect the reasonable demands of the family members in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations, communicate with the family members about the details of the plan, formulate a compensation plan, and determine a unified compensation standard.

At present, the company has set up a full-time team to be responsible for the claim settlement, opened a special claim settlement line, and actively communicated and negotiated with the family members online or offline in accordance with the principle of being close to the family members.

　　At present, the mountains around the accident site are at risk of small-scale landslides. The rescuers have arranged three slope radar monitoring points to monitor the surrounding mountains.

Zheng Xi said that in the next step, rescuers will search for the remains of the victims as much as possible, give the victims an explanation, and give their families some comfort.

"We will also do our best to collect the wreckage of the aircraft to provide support for subsequent accident investigations."

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