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Flight MU5735, operated by a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, crashed
into a mountainside last Monday, killing all 132 people onboard
in mainland China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.
"Large-scale air crash investigations that only rely on data
provided by the black boxes are often insufficient to tell the
full truth of the incident," Zhu Tao, head of the aviation
safety office at Civil Aviation Administration of China, told a
press conference.
"While examining data from the black boxes, we're doing our
utmost effort to collect as much plane debris as possible and
more footage and witness accounts of the accident," said Zhu.
Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box - the flight
data recorder - from the wreckage of the jet.
So far, more than 15,000 rescue and search workers have been
sent to the scene, covering a total of 370,000 square meters and
more than 36,000 pieces of plane wreckage have been found, Zheng
Xi, head of the Guangxi Fire and Rescue Corp, told the same
briefing.
Earth-moving equipment has been brought in to conduct deep
excavation work in the hope of recovering more plane parts and
personal belongings of the passengers, Zheng added.
(Reporting by Stella Qiu in Beijing and Jamie Freed in Sydney;
Editing by Mark Potter)
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