{"id":47866,"date":"2022-03-23T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47866"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:23:49","slug":"black-box-of-crashed-china-eastern-plane-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47866","title":{"rendered":"Black box of crashed China Eastern plane recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the two black box recorders from the crashed China Eastern airliner has been recovered as investigators try to piece together what made the jet carrying 132 passengers crash in southern China.<\/p>\n

The device is so damaged that investigators were not able to tell whether it is the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder, Mao Yanfeng,\u00a0 director of the accident investigation division of the Civil Aviation Authority of China, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Mao said an all-out effort<\/a> is being made to find the other data recorder. It was not clear if the damage to the recovered one would limit its usefulness.<\/p>\n

Recovering the so-called black boxes, which are usually painted orange for visibility, is considered key to figuring out what caused plane crashes.<\/p>\n

The cause of the recent disaster has mystified aviation authorities who have scoured rugged terrain for clues, finding no survivors<\/a> from the incident.<\/p>\n

Officials have still refrained from declaring all of the passengers dead despite the pulverised mass of twisted metal and charred belongings found on the mountainside where it went down.<\/p>\n

The Boeing 737-800 plane crashed near Wuzhou in southern China on Monday after losing contact with air traffic control.<\/p>\n

Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed the jet sharply dropped from an altitude of 8,900 to 2,400 metres (29,100 to 7,850 feet) in just a minute.<\/p>\n

After a brief upswing, it dropped again to 983 metres (3,225 feet), the tracker said.<\/p>\n

\u2018My heart sank\u2019<\/h2>\n

Relatives of passengers began arriving on Wednesday at the gate to Lu village just outside the crash zone, where they, along with reporters on the scene, were stopped by police and officials who used opened umbrellas to block the view beyond.<\/p>\n

One woman was overheard saying her husband, the father of their two children, had been on board the flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going in there to take a look. Am I breaking the law?\u201d she said. The woman and a companion were then escorted away and reporters were told to stop filming.<\/p>\n

Another man, who gave his surname Ding, said his sister-in-law had been on the plane. He said he hoped to visit the site but had been told little by the authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just coming here to have a look,\u201d said Ding. \u201cMy heart sank all of a sudden\u201d upon hearing about the crash, he added. He too was escorted away.<\/p>\n