Chinese authorities announced on the 26th that all 132 people aboard the Eastern Airlines flight that crashed in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the 21st were killed.
According to Xinhua News Agency on the 26th, the Central Countermeasures Headquarters for the Flight Accident of Eastern Airlines said at a press conference that day, “It has been confirmed that all 123 passengers and 9 crew members of the plane have been killed.”
An official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), who was dispatched to the scene of the accident, said, “It is very regrettable to announce that all the passengers and crew have died.”
Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 crashed over Wuzhou on the way to Guangzhou, Guangdong, from Kunming Changshui Airport in Yunnan Province at 1:15 pm on the 21st.
According to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the Accident Response Headquarters organized personnel from various departments such as the fire department, military, public security, health and quarantine, and conducted a large-scale investigation at the accident site for the past six days.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China said that “experts analyzed the distribution of debris at the crash site, but no traces of survivors were found.”
According to Xinhua News Agency, the identities of 120 people who died in the plane crash have been confirmed through DNA testing.
Meanwhile, Chinese authorities are making every effort to find an additional black box for the crashed Eastern Airlines flight, but it is said that they have not been able to find it yet.
China’s Minhangwang and others reported on the 25th that they had found an unrecovered FDR among the two black boxes of the passenger plane that crashed on the 25th. However, as a result of checking with the Central Countermeasures Headquarters by Xinhua and others, it was revealed that the second black box had not yet been found.
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