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Reuters
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Martin Quin Pollard

China expands crash search as second black box eludes

Workers carry a case at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed, in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Recovery crews on Friday expanded the search area of the China Eastern Airlines crash, as the second of the plane's two black boxes eluded search-and-rescue workers for a fourth day.

Flight MU5735 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou on the coast on Monday when the Boeing 737-800 plummeted from cruising altitude at about the time when it should have started its descent to its destination.

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