China Crash: 132 dead passengers and crew, officials confirm Published 17 hours agasoshalecloshare pagecopy linkabout sharingimage Source, CGTN through Reutersimage Law, soldiers who transport shovels walk on a path to the forest mountain accident site on Wednesday
Chinese officials have confirmed that the 132 passengers And the crew died when the flight MU5735 crashed on Monday in southern China.
East China flight fly from Kunming to Guangzhou when he dived from nose and crashed into a very wooded area in Guangxi.
Rescue teams said they had identified 120 victims until now through DNA analysis, aviation officials said.
The state media reported that both black boxes have been found.
The flight data recorder, which could provide crucial information about why the plane crashed an hour on your trip, recovered on Saturday.
The first black box has already been sent to Beijing to be inspected by experts, Reuters said. It is believed that one is believed to contain the voice recorder of the cabin.
Although there had been little hope of finding the survivors, the families of the victims have been waiting for news of the search. Equipment, which have been combing the very wooded area for days.
But the search has been difficult in remote hills near the city of Wuzhou, with rescue teams working on very muddy conditions.
Hu Zhenjiang, Deputy Director General of China's civil aviation administration, said the search would continue for the remains of victims and summary parts of airplanes, Chinese news website Sina reported.
The manufacturer of aircraft Boeing, which made the 737-800 Jet, said on Saturday his technical team supported the US National Transport Safety Board . UU and China's civil aviation administration with the investigation, Reuters reports.
Following the accident, China's president XI, Jinping requested a large-scale investigation.
The accident is China's most deadly aviation incident in almost three decades, and has caused a national derivation of pain.
