China has retrieved the second black box from a crashed jet after days of searching, as investigators try to work out why the China Eastern Airlines flight carrying 132 people plummeted from a cruise altitude.
The flight data recorder was found 5 feet beneath the soil at 9:20 a.m. on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Investigators made the discovery on the east hillside of the crash site in rural southern China near the city of Wuzhou, it added.
The black box was sent to Beijing for analysis, CCTV reported. Some parts of the device were severely damaged, Zhu Tao, an official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at a news conference on Sunday in Wuzhou, without giving more details. Officials said the box was found some 40 meters from the main crash site, and was among the more than 33,700 pieces of wreckage recovered.
