China Eastern’s MU5735 flight device crashed in southern China on Monday. The hopes of finding survivors were thin; Saturday, the authorities confirmed that all passengers and crew members were killed.
Le Monde with AFP
The 132 people on board the Boeing 737-800 who crashed, Monday, in the south of China, all died, announced the administration of Chinese civil aviation on Saturday, March 26th.
“The 123 passengers and nine crew members of China Eastern Flight were killed on board March 21,” said Deputy Director General for Civil Aviation Administration, Hu Zhenjiang , adding: “one hundred and twenty victims could have been identified through their DNA.”
Drones, rescuers and thermal cameras had been mobilized on the crash site, near the city of Wuzhou, in the province of Guangxi. The hopes of finding survivors were thin, the apparatus having dropped before killing after the impact. The violence of the impact had projected parts of the plane and objects belonging to passengers on a large area.
A first black box, which recorded the conversations in the cockpit, was found, Wednesday, and sent to Beijing to be analyzed.
Rescuers pass the site to the end comb in order to find the second black box, the one that contains the flight data, such as speed, altitude and course followed.
With these elements, investigators should be able to determine the causes of the accident, the aircraft that dropped in several thousand meters in a few minutes despite a mild weather.