All black boxes of the Eastern Airlines flight that crashed in southern China have been recovered. While the cause of the accident appears to be gaining momentum, Chinese authorities have officially announced that all 132 people on board have died.
Correspondent Song Wook from Beijing reports.
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At the site of the crash of the Eastern Airlines plane, search crews look closely at the barrel marked ‘flight recorder’.
It is a flight data recorder, one of the two black boxes installed on the plane.
[중국 관영 CCTV 보도 : 기록기의 기타 부분은 많이 훼손됐지만, 데이터 저장 부분은 외관이 비교적 온전합니다.]
Another black box, the cockpit voice recorder, was discovered on the 23rd and is being read.
As all black boxes were secured within a week after the accident on the 21st, the task of finding the cause of the crash of the plane that fell vertically is expected to gain momentum.
No signs of explosives were found in the wreckage.
Chinese authorities concluded that there were no survivors among the 132 people on board.
Authorities, who confirmed the identity of 120 victims through DNA analysis, etc., officially announced that “all passengers on the plane were dead.”
[후전장/동방항공 사고 긴급 조치 지휘본부 : 123명의 승객과 9명의 승무원이 모두 사망했음을 매우 침통한 심정으로 발표합니다.]
A temporary altar was installed at the site, and the relatives of about 800 passengers visited Wuzhou, Guangxi, where the accident occurred.
The Hong Kong media South China Morning Post reported that at least three people per survivor are assigned to a support team from the authorities to closely monitor it, and media coverage is also being controlled.
