Second black box recovered at site of Chinese plane crash

Published March 27, 2022 1:44pm ET



The second black box of a crashed China Eastern Boeing 737-800 carrying over 100 passengers was found on Sunday as investigators try to piece together what caused the wreck.

Firefighters searching the wreckage of the plane in southern China found the data recorder, confirmed by experts to be the second black box, on a mountain slope about 130 feet from the point of impact and 5 feet underground.

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