Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment on Thursday across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew dead.
More human remains have been found, officials confirmed on Thursday, but the velocity of a crash which punched a crater into the muddy ground and scattered plane parts and passenger belongings across a wide area, has complicated recovery work.
“Most of the aircraft wreckage is concentrated in a core area within a radius of about 30 metres from the main impact point,” Zhu Tao of China’s aviation authority told reporters.
“The depth extends down from the surface to about 20 metres. Monday’s crash is almost certainly China’s worst air disaster in three decades and President Xi Jinping was swift to order a full investigation into what happened.
Wiping tears from her eyes, her arms supported by two men, a distraught relative arrived at the entrance point to the crash area on Thursday morning, according to an AFP reporter. Hundreds of relatives of victims have arrived in the southern Chinese city, awaiting confirmation of their worst fears. Despite the odds, searchers on Thursday were yet to rule out finding people trapped on the densely forested, mud-slicked slopes.
The “mission is mainly focused on searching for victims and saving lives”, Huang Shangwu, of Guangxi Fire and Rescue Force, told reporters, citing instructions “from headquarters”. We are using thermal imagers and life detectors to search the surface… we also use manual searches and aerial drones.
Source: eNCA
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