A first black box found on Wednesday was the cockpit voice recorder based on an early assessment, a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official told reporters.
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The cockpit voice recorder would provide investigators with details of the communications between the flight’s three pilots, which is one more than is normally required onboard a Boeing BA.N 737-800 plane. It is too early to determine the cause of the crash, which experts say is usually the result of a combination of factors. No survivors have been found.
Rescue workers work at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed.Southern Weekly, a large Guangdong-based newspaper, which only identified the crew by their surnames, reported Yang, 32, had a one-year-old daughter, while Zhang, 59, was a veteran pilot with an impeccable safety record and had been expected to retire this year. The newspaper said the less experienced second officer’s surname was Ni.