China plane crash: Second black box recovered, says state media
India TodayA China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 132 people on board crashed into the mountains outside the southern Chinese city of Wuzhou on Monday. On Sunday, Chinese state media reported that the second black box of the crashed plane has also been recovered. Construction excavators had dug into the crash site on Saturday in the search for wreckage, remains and the second black box, the flight data recorder. CGTN, a Chinese state-run TV news service, tweeted on Sunday, "Experts at the China Eastern Airlines flight crash site confirm the recovery of the second black box." #MU5735 pic.twitter.com/YaRVhzScQ4 — CGTN March 27, 2022 CHINESE PLANE CRASH The flight from the city of Kunming in southwestern China was flying at 29,000 feet on Monday when it suddenly nosedived into a mountainous area, shortly before it would have started its descent to the airport in Guangzhou, a provincial capital and export manufacturing hub near Hong Kong on China's southeastern coast.