Beijing — Each black packing containers from a passenger aircraft crash in southern China final month that killed 132 persons are being analyzed by U.S. consultants at a authorities lab in Washington, D.C. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated Tuesday it's serving to its Chinese language counterparts obtain info from the flight information recorder. The American company stated final week it was doing the identical for the cockpit voice recorder.
Each might have been broken by the affect of the crash. If the knowledge on them will be recovered, it might make clear why the China Jap Boeing 737-800 went right into a sudden nosedive and slammed into the bottom in a mountainous space on March 21.
The crash left a 65-foot-deep crater in a mountainside, shattered the aircraft and set off a fireplace within the surrounding forest. Greater than 49,000 items of aircraft particles had been discovered. It took two days to seek out the cockpit voice recorder and 6 days for the flight information recorder, which was buried 5 ft underground.
U.S. accident investigators arrived in China final weekend to help the investigation by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The NTSB staff is collaborating as a result of the aircraft was manufactured in the US.
Chinese language officers have stated a preliminary investigation report can be accomplished inside 30 days of the crash.
Flight MU5735 with 123 passengers and 9 crew members was headed from the town of Kunming in southwestern China to Guangzhou, a provincial capital and export manufacturing hub close to Hong Kong within the southeast.