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Flight recorder found at China Eastern Airlines 737-800 crash site in Beijing for analysis
March 24th 2022
Search and rescue teams at the southern China site of crashed China Eastern Airlines (CEA) flight MU5735 have located one of the two flight recorders from the 737-800 registration B-1791, local media has reported, citing comments from Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) accident investigation division director, Mao Yanfeng. Read More » As the device, commonly known as a black box, was badly damaged in the accident investigators have yet to reveal if the retrieved item, now in Beijing, was the cockpit voice recorder or the flight data recorder. There March 21 CEA crash took the lives of all 123 passengers and nine crew on board. China vice premier, Liu He, is in the region to oversee the recovery operation.
