China finds cockpit voice recorder intact in first black box from crashed jet

Caption In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, an emergency worker puts an orange-colored "black box" recorder into a plastic bag at the China Eastern flight crash site on March 23, 2022, in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi region. - CCTV via AP video

WUZHOU, China (Reuters): Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday (March 23) one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed with 132 people onboard, but US efforts to join the investigation are on hold because of Covid-19 quarantine rules.

The black box device recovered is the plane's cockpit voice recorder, based on an early assessment, a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official told a media briefing, adding that the recording material appeared to have survived impact in relatively good shape.