China Eastern Airlines Plane's Black Box Found at Site of Crash, Authorities Say

By Yoko Kubota

BEIJING--Rescuers have recovered one of the so-called black boxes from the crashed Boeing 737 in southern China, the country's air-safety regulator said Wednesday.

Authorities are still working to verify whether the device was a flight-data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder, Mao Yanfeng, an official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said in a news conference.

Rescue teams have been scouring the site of the crash for missing passengers as well as for the plane's two black boxes after a Boeing 737 plane, which was carrying 132 people and operated by China Eastern Airlines, plunged to the ground in a rural part of China's Guangxi region on Monday.

The so-called black boxes--cockpit voice and flight data recorders--store vital information and typically provide accident investigations the best information about what caused a plane to go down.

Write to Yoko Kubota at yoko.kubota@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 23, 2022 06:20 ET (10:20 GMT)

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