The story goes on under the ad The plane plunged over 25,000 feet in less than three minutes and crashed into a mountain near Molang Village in Wuzhou City, causing a forest fire. The cause of the crash has confused the aviation authorities and experts. The weather was good, the pilots did not sound the alarm and the plane did not appear to have crashed during the flight. China has one of the strongest aviation safety records in the world. Outgoing Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson described the type of Boeing plane that crashed as “one of the safest aircraft ever built in commercial operation.” Hundreds of firefighters and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, local officials said. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has assembled a team of technical experts from the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and engine maker CFM International to participate in the Chinese crash investigation. The story goes on under the ad Search teams removed one of the two black boxes, which contained recorded flight information that could help investigators determine the cause of the crash. But the black box was badly damaged, Chinese Air Force official Mao Yangfeng said on Wednesday. The passengers on the plane included a young couple taking their young daughter to be operated on in Guangzhou, executives at a Guangzhou mining company, a newly married woman and a woman who returned to Guangzhou after returning home for the Lunar Morning Show. local media have been reported. More than 500 family members descended on the nearby city of Wuzhou to await information on the fate of relatives aboard the ship, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The plane crash is the deadliest in China since 1994, when a China Northwest Airlines flight crashed in Xian after an autopilot malfunctioned, causing the plane to explode in the air, killing 160 people.
