
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.
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