1. China Eastern Airlines Boeing plane crashed.
On March 2 1 day, 2022, a Boeing 737 passenger plane of China Eastern Airlines suddenly lost contact over Wuzhou while carrying out the afternoon 13 to 15 flight from Kunming to Guangzhou. There are *** 132 people on board, including passengers 123 people and 9 crew members. The flight number of this aircraft is MU5735, and it is a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a service life of 6.8 years.
Second, the rescue work started quickly after the incident.
China Eastern Airlines, Civil Aviation Administration, public security organs, search and rescue forces and other personnel arrived at the scene to carry out on-site search and rescue, searching for aircraft wreckage, black boxes and other important related information. On March 26, 2022, the Civil Aviation Administration has searched for an emergency positioning transmitter, which is located near the location where the second black box is installed. At the same time, the public security organs used criminal technology to confirm the identities of 120 passengers, and the comparison of passenger identity information continues. Because the location of the emergency positioning transmitter was determined, a second black box was excavated under the soil layer of 1.5m on March 27th, 2022, and both black boxes were sent to Beijing for data recovery. 33,777 pieces of aircraft wreckage have been searched at the scene of the accident, and China Eastern Airlines officially started the claim settlement work.
Third, the significance of the existence of black boxes.
Why have you been looking for the black box? Because the black box is also called flight data recorder. The black box can record various aircraft parameters during the flight, such as the flight time, altitude and speed of the aircraft, as well as the dialogue between the pilot and the crew. Once the plane breaks down, the black box is an important basis for analyzing the accident and giving the family a true and transparent final account.