A black box containing the flight recorder was recovered Wednesday from the wreckage of a China Eastern passenger plane that crashed earlier this week, officials said. The flight recorder from China Eastern Flight MU5735, a Boeing 737-800, was found, Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China’s aviation authority, told reporters. State media outlets later claimed that the recorder was badly damaged. Boeing 737-800 planes are equipped with two flight recorders. Officials are still looking for the other recorder. “At present, it is unclear whether it is a data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder” that was located, said another Civil Aviation Administration official, Mao Yanfeng, during a news conference, according to the AFP news agency. Previously, officials said that all 132 people on board the plane were killed in the crash. No survivors were found during a search of the plane’s wreckage. The search for clues into why a Chinese commercial jetliner dove suddenly …
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