China Eastern jet crash clues awaited as black boxes arrive in US

A search and rescue worker holds the second black box recorder recovered at the China Eastern flight crash site in Tengxian County. Even when flight recorders are severely damaged, it’s still possible to extract information from the individual memory chips inside. - AP

BEIJING (Bloomberg): Investigators trying to figure out why a Boeing Co. 737-800 plunged to the ground in China last month could gain key clues within days from the jet’s black boxes, which have been sent to the US for analysis.

"I’d expect within a week the investigation team would have the information,” said Neil Campbell, a retired air-safety investigator at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau who worked on the Boeing 737 Max disaster in Indonesia in 2018.