![]() Whatever cockpit voice recordings and flight data can be gleaned from those recorders are now being analyzed in Beijing and at the Washington, D.C., labs of the National Transportation Safety Board, a U.S. ![]() Chinese air crash investigators found nearly 50,000 fragments, including the plane's two flight recorders. Here's David Yu, a Shanghai-based aircraft appraiser.ĭAVID YU: Well, generally speaking, look if you're a normal aircraft and you basically shut off all the engines, the plane is actually built to basically glide, OK?įENG: So that 90-degree angle at which the plane hit the ground is highly unusual. The wreckage of the plane was scattered across a tropical hillside in southern China, some fragments buried up to 60 feet deep. On March 21, it plunged more than 7,000 feet in a minute, pulling up slightly but then shooting down again, hitting the ground nose first at near supersonic speeds. NPR's Emily Feng is in Beijing.ĮMILY FENG, BYLINE: What stands out the most about China Eastern Flight 5735 are its last moments. ![]() They've arrived to help figure out what happened to a Chinese flight that crashed last month, killing all 132 people on board.
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