24,000 pieces of wreckage from the crashed Chinese plane recovered

Chinese authorities announced Saturday that they have not found any evidence of explosive materials in the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed with 132 people on board.

Zhou Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said investigators found a transmitter installed near a missing black box that recorded flight data, but they did not recover the device itself.

A black box that picked up sounds was found in the cockpit earlier, according to Bloomberg News.

Officials said about 24,000 pieces of the wreckage had been recovered.

And the Beijing Aviation Authority announced today, Saturday, that the Chinese authorities had identified the identities of 120 people who died, out of 132 crew and passengers of a plane that crashed in the south of the country five days ago.

Jing Shi, head of fire services in the area near the city of Wazhou, told the aviation authority that six crew members and 114 passengers had been identified.

The authority said work is continuing to inspect the wreckage.

While the flight's voice recorder has been recovered, the flight data recorder is still missing.

There were reports that the voice recorder was damaged, but it is relatively complete.

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