US investigators fly to China to aid in Boeing plane crash probe
US accident investigators arrived in China on Saturday to help authorities look for clues into what caused last month’s crash of a Boeing jetliner with 132 people aboard.
The seven-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the Civil Aviation Administration of China’s investigation of the March 21 crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800.
As part of that assistance, the plane’s cockpit voice recorder is being downloaded and analysed at a US lab in Washington, federal officials said Friday.
Investigators hope the recording will explain why the plane went into a nosedive from about 8,800 metres (29,000 feet) over a mountainous region in southeastern China.
