Heavy rain hampered search efforts after more than 2,000 rescuers, armed with shovels and flashlights, combed through mountainous terrain and began discovering human remains from the site of a plane crash in southern China
Ou Ling, a fire department official in Wuzhou, a city in the Guangxi region near the crash site, told CCTV on Tuesday that human remains have been found. Details about any recovery of bodies remained scarce in Chinese media.Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
Mr. Ou said the narrow paths to the crash site have prevented larger rescue equipment from entering, adding that the lack of lighting facilities in the mountains—especially at night—has complicated their mission, according to state media. A spokesman for China’s airline regulator, Zhu Tao, said at a briefing late Tuesday that the severely damaged jet has made the investigation difficult and the cause of the crash couldn’t yet be determined.
Along with the search for the missing passengers, another critical mission is the hunt for the plane’s two so-called black boxes. Investigators typically analyze the plane’s flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to help gain insight into a flight’s final moments, though crash investigations can often take months or years.
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