2nd black box of crashed plane found

Black boxes of crashed plane found in lake

The second black box of the crashed CRJ-200 plane was also found Wednesday morning in Baotou City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The second black box, or the flight data recorder, was found at 12:49 a.m. Wednesday. The first of the two black boxes, the cabin voice recorder (CVR), which was found at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday had received some damages and need to be taken to Beijing for further study, said experts at the site of the air crash.

A 50-seat short-haul jet CRJ-200, with 47 passengers and six crew members aboard, left Baotou in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for east China metropolis Shanghai at 8:21 a.m. Sunday, but crashed into the lake of Nanhai Park shortly after it took off.

All of the people aboard, together with at least one senior person on the ground, were killed.

Source: Xinhua