This recorder contains the flight data, such as speed, altitude and CAP followed. Its analysis and that of the black box containing the conversations in the cockpit may allow to explain why the aircraft suddenly dive into the ground.
Le Monde with AFP
The second recorder containing the flight data that crashed in China was recovered Sunday, March 27 and could help lift the mystery on the vertiginous fall of the plane in minutes.
“The second black box of the flight China Eastern MU5735 was found on March 27,” said New China News Agency, which quotes the Rescue Operations Command Center.
This recorder contains the flight data, such as speed, altitude, and tracking.
The Boeing 737-800 of the China Eastern Airlines, which connected the Chinese cities of Kunming (southwest) and canton (south), had crashed Monday on a wooded hill of Wuzhou (South), in the province Guangxi.
The causes of the disaster, which has killed all 123 passengers and nine crew members, are not yet known. All people on board were Chinese nationality.
A first flight recorder, which contains the conversations in the cockpit, had been found on Wednesday and sent to Beijing to be decoded. Its analysis should still take several days.
First Response elements
On Sunday, CCTV public television broadcasts images of rescuers recovering the second orange color cylinder covered with a little earth, which was discovered at 1.50 meters deep at the roots of a tree.
The two black boxes of the aircraft now found, the investigators should obtain within a few days or weeks the first elements of answer on the causes of the accident.
After confirming the identities of the vast majority of victims through DNA tests, the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) announced Saturday night that all the people aboard the unit were dead .
This is the worst aircraft accident since 1994 in China, where aviation safety is considered very good by the experts.
Hundreds of rescuers and investigators, some dressed in white protection combinations, continued on Sunday their research on the scene of the drama.
On this hill and earthy surrounded by dense vegetation, helped with orange or yellow excavators, they retrieve debris from the plane, human remains and any element that can be used for the investigation.
Longeon
According to the specialized website FlightRadar24 , the device has lost in just a minute nearly 21,250 feet (6,477 meters).
After a brief lift, he plunged again, from 4,625 feet (1,410 meters), depending on the tracer, to be 3,225 feet (983 meters) of the floor. There is no data for the flight next. According to several experts, these data are relatively unusual.
No suspicion is at the moment on the captain and his two copilots, who accumulated respectively 6,709, 31,769 and 556 flight hours, “said China Eastern.
On the basis of a preliminary inquiry, the service states of these pilots were “very good” and their family situations were “harmonious”, said the airline.