Wing and engine parts found in China Eastern crash as hunt for 2nd black box continues
LA TimesSearch workers head to the crash site of a China Eastern jetliner that nosedived into a mountainside Monday with 132 people onboard. 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 onboard earlier this week. No survivors have been found since the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 nosedived into a mountainous area Monday during a domestic flight, but authorities say they still are looking. Shanghai-based China Eastern, one of China’s four major airlines, said Thursday that it and its subsidiaries have grounded a total of 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft while they investigate possible safety hazards. China Eastern said earlier that the grounding was a precaution, not a sign of anything wrong, and that the crashed plane had been in good condition and the flight crew experienced and in good health.