Searchers had been looking for the flight data recorder after finding the cockpit voice recorder 4-days ago. The two recorders should help investigators determine what caused the plane to plummet from 29,000 feet (8,800 meters) and into a forested mountainside in southern China.
The flight from the city of Kunming in southwestern China was flying at 29,000 feet (8,800 metres) on Monday when it suddenly nosedived into a mountainous area, shortly before it would have started its descent to the airport in Guangzhou.
The Boeing 737-800 plane with 132 people on board crashed on Monday in a village in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou. No survivors have been found so far.
The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft, which departed from Kunming and was bound for Guangzhou on Monday, crashed into a mountainous area near Molang Village in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou, in the worst air disaster in over a decade in the country.
The flight was traveling from Kunming in the western province of Yunnan to the industrial center of Guangzhou along the east coast
The flight had taken off from Kunming and was en route to Guangzhou. The crash caused a fire on the mountains, and the jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft.
Beijing: Seven passengers were injured when a plane with 52 people on board caught fire and skidded off a runway while taxiing at an airport in southeast China on Sunday. Joyair flight JR1529 careened off the
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