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- After the crash of a Boeing 737 in southern China, the rescue work has been interrupted.
- Heavy rain makes work in the mountainous area, which is difficult to access, impossible, according to Chinese state media. The plane crashed on Monday with 132 people on board.
- One of the two black boxes has now been found.
According to China, one of the two flight recorders from the crashed China Eastern plane was found in badly damaged condition. The recorder was so damaged that it was not possible to tell whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder.
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Some of the debris from the crashed Boeing 737 is scattered.
key stone
According to the Chinese authorities, no survivors were found two days after the accident.
Accident machine not reachable before crash
The China Eastern Airlines plane suddenly went into a steep dive and a short time later crashed into a hilly forest area near the city of Wuzhou. According to data from the website FlightRadar24.com, the aircraft was able to regain some altitude after an initial rapid drop, but then continued the fall.
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The aircraft, flight number MU5735, was en route from Kunming to Guangzhou in Guangdong province.
SRF
According to the Chinese civil aviation authority, several attempts were made to contact the machine, but the crew did not answer. The signal from the MU5735 then disappeared around three minutes after the start of the dive.
flights cancelled
“With the information currently available, it is impossible to make a clear judgment about the cause of the accident,” said Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Bureau. First, the investigative team would need to collect evidence. On board the machine were 123 passengers and 9 crew members.
China Eastern has now canceled all flights with the affected 737-800NG aircraft. However, other companies had planned more than 850 flights with the model. State media reported that around 70 percent of all flights in China were canceled on Tuesday. However, it was pointed out that due to the pandemic situation, there had recently been a high failure rate.