No survivors found in China Eastern crash

No survivors have been found so far after a China Eastern Airlines plane crashed on March 21 in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, local authorities said on March 22.

One of the two black boxes was found on March 23 and preliminarily identified as the cockpit voice recorder.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm on March 21 and was scheduled to arrive in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi, at 2:21 pm. The flight was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, all Chinese nationals.

As of 9 pm on March 22, no survivors had been found, said Sun Shiying, chairman of China Eastern Airlines, at a news conference.

ZHOU HUA / XINHUA Search and rescue workers spare no efforts to recover the black boxes of a crashed jet at the main area of the accident site on March 22 in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The China Eastern Airlines jet carrying 132 people crashed on March 21, prompting all-out search and rescue efforts.