Drones, rescuers and thermal cameras are mobilized this Thursday in China on the site where a Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 people crashed, the search redoubled to locate hypothetical survivors and the second black box.
Four days after the tragedy
The plane operating China Eastern Airlines domestic flight MU5735 broke up on a wooded hill in Wuzhou (south), Guangxi region, while connecting the cities of Kunming (southwest) and Guangzhou ( South).
Four days after the tragedy, no survivor has yet been found.
Hopes are slim, the device having fallen almost vertically before igniting after the impact.
Research in hostile terrain
In the pouring rain, firefighters, soldiers, doctors, civil aviation officials and volunteers continued their operations on Thursday on steep terrain, made muddy by precipitation.
They have not ruled out finding survivors.
“Our main objective is to search for victims and save lives,” Huang Shangwu, a senior fire official in the region, told reporters.
"For this, we use thermal cameras and life detectors for surface searches (...) in addition to manual and aerial searches using drones."
A first black box found
A first black box, which must have recorded the conversations in the cockpit, was found on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis.
The rescuers go through the site with a fine-toothed comb in order to find the second black box, the one which contains the data of the flight such as the speed, the altitude and the heading followed.
With these elements, the investigators should be able to determine the causes of the accident of the plane, which fell several thousand meters in a few minutes despite mild weather.
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