China Plane Crash: Searchers Find Wing, Engine Parts
Huff PostWorkers supporting the rescue and search effort wash up at a disinfecting station near the China Eastern crash site in Molang village in southwestern China's Guangxi province on March 24, 2022. via Associated Press WUZHOU, China — Hundreds of searchers wearing rubber boots and full rain gear headed into muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday to try to find the second black box from a China Eastern passenger jet that crashed in southern China with 132 people on board earlier this week. Three days after the crash, larger pieces of debris were reported found for the first time, including engine components and a white wing section with the red and blue China Eastern logo on it, state broadcaster CCTV said. An emergency worker checks on the orange-colored "black box" recorder which recovered at the China Eastern flight crash site in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on March 23, 2022. The China Eastern flight was headed from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, a major city and export manufacturing hub on China’s southeastern coast.