China Eastern Airlines: locate one of the black boxes of the plane that crashed

A black box from the Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Monday in China with 132 people on board was located, an official from the civil aviation administration announced on Wednesday.

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A black box of [vuelo] from China Eastern MU5735 was found on March 23,” Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China’s civil aviation administration, told reporters. China (CAAC).

The Boeing 737-800 is equipped with two boxes black: one at the rear of the passenger cabin, which records flight data, and one in the cockpit, which has a built-in recorder (dictator).

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“At the moment, we do not know if it is the [aparato] that records data or from the cockpit recorder,” said Mao Yanfeng, a CAAC official, quoted by state media.

The flight had taken off from Kunming (southwest) in the direction of Canton but, halfway through, it lost more than 26,000 feet in height (about 8,000 meters) in just three minutes and crashed in the Guangxi region (southwest).

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Officials have so far refrained from declaring all passengers dead, while the airline has acknowledged that people on board the flight were killed but has provided no further details.

According to specialized flight tracker FlightRadar24, the aircraft lost almost 21,250 feet (6,477 m) in one minute.

Then, after a brief ascent, it plummeted again, at 1,410m, according to the tracker, to 983m above the ground. At 2:22 p.m. on Monday, the flight data was lost.

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Source: Elcomercio

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