Mud hinders hunt for air crash clues
RECOVERY crews were still looking for a second black box recorder from the China Eastern Airlines crash site yesterday.
Muddy conditions in fields and forest where the Boeing 737 was scattered in Monday’s disaster were hampering progress.
The plane’s other black box, said to be the cockpit voice recorder, was being checked for clues to why it entered a near-vertical dive halfway through the two-hour flight to Guangzhou, in southern China.
Relatives of the 123 passengers and nine crew were told no one survived.
Search teams have found engine parts and human remains but much of the plane was destroyed.
The incident is said to be China’s worst air crash in almost three decades.