WUZHOU CITY, China
A Chinese flight expert said it's "very unlikely" there's any survivor in the plane crash on Monday as rescuers still putting all efforts in to searching.
The search and rescue team
have found more plane debris and some personal belongings scattered near the
site in southern China where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed
with 132 people on board.
The medics found some burned
identification cards, bank cards and wallets on the way to the crash site near
Molang Village, Tengxian County, Wuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region. All the personal belongings were collected as evidence.
"The aircraft was diving
straight to the ground at a very high speed, which means there must have been a
really terrible impact," Wang Yanan, chief editor of Aerospace Knowledge
magazine, told CGTN.
Wang said he's concerned that
the plane's black box, which may reveal data that could give insights into the
crash, could have been damaged by the fire caused by the crash.
"If the data in the box
is safe and complete, we could know what happened to the aircraft and in what
condition it was flown. It may tell us what exactly caused the tragedy."
Wang also said it's unlikely
that the pilot of the Boeing 737-800 intentionally crashed the plane.
The explanation that the pilot
lost control of the plane and couldn't avert the tragedy "fits better with
the plane's last behavior," he said.
Wang said under normal
circumstances, if a plane's engine breaks, the aircraft should be able to glide
for a very long distance, leaving an extended window for the pilot to deal with
the emergency.
The Beijing News quoted an
unnamed expert as saying the plane's fast fall before the crash was
"abnormal," but there's no evidence pointing to a mid-air
disintegration.
The rescue operation is underway with the help of hundreds of rescuers, including Chinese military and paramilitary forces, medics and even local villagers.
Relief supplies have been
delivered to the crash site for rescue operation. As the crash site is located
in a mountainous area and there is only one route to the site, it's more
challenging for the rescue team or large vehicles to get through. Therefore, motorbikes
have become the main mode of transport to deliver supplies.
A work group from the Civil
Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has also been deployed at the crash
site.
Communication equipment and
supplies, including drones, were delivered to the site to help with the rescue
operation.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He,
also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China, and State Councilor Wang Yong on Monday led officials to guide
rescue work at the crash site.
The U.S. National
Transportation Safety Board Monday said it had appointed a senior air
safety investigator as a U.S. accredited representative for the crash
investigation. Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun said in a letter on Monday
that the planemaker has offered full support of its technical experts to the
investigation led by the CAAC.
The plane was en route to
Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, from Kunming, capital
of southwestern province of Yunnan.
It has been over 4,000 days
for China's civil aviation safety record before the crash, based on the latest
CAAC data.
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