Rescue teams intensified this Thursday, with drones and thermal cameras, the search for survivors and the second black box of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Monday with 132 people on board in a mountain area in southern China.
The China Eastern Airlines aircraft, operating flight MU5735, it disintegrated on a forested slope in Wuzhou (south), while flying from Kunming (southwest) to Guangzhou (south).
Four days after the tragedy, no survivor. One of the two black boxes, which must have recorded conversations in the cockpit, was found on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis.
"Our main objective is to search for victims and save lives. To do this, we are using thermal cameras and life detectors for surface searches (…) complemented by manual and aerial searches with drones."Huang Shangwu, a senior fire official in the region, told reporters.
Under torrential rain, firefighters, soldiers, doctors, civil aviation officials and volunteers continued their operations on steep terrain covered in mud from the rain on Thursday.
rescue teams also look for the second black boxwhich contains flight data such as speed, altitude and heading, with which it could be determined what caused the plane to fall several thousand meters in a few minutes.
Possible confirmation of the deaths of all 123 passengers and nine crew members would make it the worst plane crash since 1994 in China, where air safety is considered very good by experts.
