The velocity of the crash meant no survivors had been found nearly 36 hours after Monday's crash.
Recovery teams clambered over a scene of upturned earth, blasted trees and scattered debris, including a section of plane bearing the carrier's blue and red liveryBEIJING - Crash investigators on Tuesday said they do not yet know why a China Eastern jet carrying 132 people plunged from sky, with recovery teams still scouring a forested mountainside for the flight recorders from the pulverised Boeing aircraft.
"With the current information, we are unable to make a clear judgment on the cause of the accident," Zhu Tao, director of the aviation safety office at China's aviation authority, said late Tuesday -- adding that the focus is now on"the search for flight recorders." President Xi Jinping quickly called for a full probe following the crash as search teams armed with drones descended upon the site in a forested, rural area of Guangxi province.On Tuesday, scorch marks were visible from the crash and resulting fire, rescue workers told AFP, with one speculating that passengers had been"totally incinerated" from the intensity of the blaze.
But AFP journalists were blocked at a hillside checkpoint by a group of men identifying themselves as Communist Party members who said they had"orders from above" to prevent access.
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