Two industry veterans were at the controls of Flight 5735, which took a sudden dive in good weather. At the crash site in southern China, search crews found wing and engine parts on Thursday.
Investigators combing the wreckage of a plane crash in southern China said on Tuesday (March 22) that they still had not been able to locate the Boeing 737-800’s flight recorders or identify what caused the plane to go down. China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 with 132 people on board came down in a steep, heavily wooded site in Teng county,.
Searchers announced the recovery of one of the two black boxes, and human tissue debris from the crash site of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 on Wednesday night, three days after the Boeing 737-800 nosedived from cruising altitude and crashed into a forested hillside, raising hopes of providing evidence to find the cause of the crash.