![]() ![]() ![]() It was China’s deadliest air disaster since 1994, when a plane went down near the city of Xi’an, killing 160. Many questions remain about what led to the crash. On Sunday, officials said the second of the Boeing 737-800’s two flight recorders, or “black boxes,” had been found. Workers were still searching the crash site in the Guangxi region for debris. Officials said Saturday that 120 of the victims had been identified. “I didn’t see anyone who lived through it.” “It was in fragments scattered all around,” Li Chenbin, a technician in the area, told the China News Service soon after the crash. On Saturday night, the Chinese authorities confirmed what had seemed all but certain for days: that none of the 132 people aboard had survived. Residents in the area described hearing a boom, apparently from the plane crashing into a hillside, and then seeing smoke from the fires it had ignited. China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was making a short trip between two cities in southern China on Monday, cruising at an altitude of more than 29,000 feet, when it began a violent plunge toward the earth. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |