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The second black box of the plane was found 1.5 meters deep under the roots of a tree.
The second black box the passenger plane that crashed last week in China with 132 people on boardwhich contains flight data such as speed, altitude and the route followed, was recovered this Sundayreported the state news agency Xinhua.
For the moment, the Causes why the Boeing 737-800 of the China Eastern Airlines airline, which was traveling between the Chinese cities of Kunming (southwest) and Canton (south), crashed on a wooded hill in Wuzhou (south) following a vertiginous fall of several kilometers in a few minutes have not been informed.
The first box from China Eastern flight MU5735, containing the conversations in the cockpit, was recovered on Wednesday and sent to Beijing to be decodeda task that might take several days.
The second, Xinhua confirmed, “was retrieved on March 27” and contains some data such as the speed, altitude and route followed by the plane. The images of the rescue of the orange cylinder, found 1.5 meters deep under the roots of a treewere broadcast this Sunday by CCTV public television.
With the two black boxes from the plane recovered, investigators may have the first elements to determine the causes of the accident.
This Saturday night, following verifying the identity of almost all the victims through DNA tests, the Chinese civil aviation administration reported that all people on board died in the incident.
Meanwhile, hundreds of firefighters, rescuers, doctors, researchers, volunteers and political authorities remain at the accident site for search for human remains and pieces of the plane that allow the investigation to continue. It is a steep hill in the middle of dense vegetation, so bulldozers are used.
According to the specialized site FlightRadar24, the plane lost 21,250 feet in one minute (6,477 meters). After a brief recovery, she fell once more 4.625 pies (1,410 meters), according to the tracker, and was 3,225 feet (983 meters) above the ground when disappeared from radar. Experts consider that a fall like that is very rare.