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One ‘Black Box’ Found in China Eastern Plane Crash

CHINA-GUANGXI-PLANE CRASH-BLACK BOX (CN)

(220322) — TENGXIAN, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) — Rescuers search for the black boxes at a plane crash site in Tengxian County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 22, 2022. Rescuers are making all-out efforts to retrieve the black boxes of a passenger plane that crashed in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Monday afternoon, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said Tuesday night. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua) (Photo by Xinhua/Sipa USA)

WUZHOU, China (AP) — A Chinese aviation official said Wednesday that one of the two “black box” recorders had been found in severely damaged condition, two days after a China Eastern flight crashed in southern China with 132 people on board.

Mao Yanfeng, the director of the accident investigation division of the Civil Aviation Authority of China, said the device is so damaged that investigators were not able to tell whether it is the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder.

He told a news conference that an all-out effort is being made to find the other black box. Recovering the so-called black boxes is considered key to figuring out what caused the crash.