Drones, scanners help at the site of Chinese plane crash
Recovery teams yesterday deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after Flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew dead. The velocity of the crash cut deep wounds into the muddy ground, and scattered plane parts and passenger belongings across a vast area, dashing hopes of finding survivors in what will almost certainly be China’s worst air crash in three decades. Wiping te...