(Crash of China Eastern Airlines) China Eastern Airlines crash: Found the remains of the victims, the remains and some of the main aircraft wreckage
China News Service, Wuzhou, March 24 (Reporter Huang Yanmei Yang Chen Chen Qiuxia) The National Emergency Response Headquarters reported on the 24th that as of 16:00 that day, search and rescue personnel had searched for 21 remains of the victims, 183 aircraft wreckage and some of the remains of the victims. Wreckage, including some major aircraft wreckage.
The National Emergency Response Headquarters held a press conference in Wuzhou City, Guangxi on the same day to release the progress of search and rescue at the accident site.
Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Administration, informed at the meeting that most of the wreckage of the plane was concentrated in the core area with a radius of about 30 meters around the main impact point, and the depth extended from the surface down to about 20 meters.
Zhu Tao introduced that the main wreckage that rescuers have found so far include: engine blades and turbine parts, engine hanger parts, left and right horizontal tail parts, aileron autopilot actuators and some winglets with parts Wing fragments were also found in the cockpit, as well as crew escape ropes and fragments of the crew manual, as well as some crew documents.
At present, investigators are still on-site to carry out on-site investigation and evidence collection of important wreckage, and do basic work for the next step to identify the cause of the accident.
On the afternoon of March 23, one of the black boxes of the crashed China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 was recovered.
It was reported at the meeting that the above black box was delivered to the decoding laboratory in Beijing by a special person that night, and the data download and analysis work was in progress. At present, the possibility of damage to the storage unit cannot be ruled out.
Zhu Tao said that the current work focus is still on search and rescue, and at the same time, evidence collection in the early stage of the accident investigation will be carried out. After entering the accident investigation stage, relevant parties will be invited to participate in the accident investigation according to relevant regulations.
In response to recent rumors on the Internet, Liu Xiaodong, director of China Eastern's propaganda department, said that the B1791 aircraft in this accident was only 6.8 years old and had flown 8,986 sorties in total. Standard - 22,600 takeoffs and landings.
The crashed plane did not involve overhaul of this component.
Regarding the issue of maintenance costs, Liu Xiaodong said that even though the number of flights was reduced during the epidemic, in order to ensure safety, China Eastern Airlines' maintenance costs not only did not decrease, but instead increased.
Maintenance costs in 2020 and 2021 are 12% higher than in 2019.
Zheng Xi, commander-in-chief of the Guangxi Fire Rescue Corps, introduced at the meeting that search and rescue personnel found a piece of suspected aircraft wreckage in a farmland in Yatang Group, Siwang Village, Tengzhou Town, Teng County, Wuzhou City, with a length of about 1.3 meters and a maximum width of about 10 cm. The core of the accident is about 10 kilometers away.
It is expected that the search area on the 24th will expand by 1.5 times compared with the previous day.
It is reported that as of 8:00 on the 24th, there were a total of 305 family members of 56 passengers staying in Wuzhou (including Teng County), Guangxi, involving 52 families.
China Eastern dispatched a total of 161 family assistance workers in Wuzhou, Guangxi, and also sent a large number of special teams to the local area. The two sides cooperated closely to provide full service guarantee and comfort communication to the families of passengers.
Under the unified arrangement of the headquarters, more than 200 family members of passengers have gone to the scene of the accident.
From March 24, China Eastern Airlines and local government staff will provide one-on-one condolences to all passengers' families, including those in Wuzhou, Kunming, Guangzhou and other cities.
At the same time, a special group for information statistics has also been established to continuously collect and update the various demands of the family members of passengers, and do their best to serve and protect the family members.
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