Search teams have recovered one of two black-box recorders that may shed light on the crash of a China Northern Airlines jetliner off Dalian last week, in which all 112 people on board were killed.
After using new equipment from the United States, the search teams recovered one of the black boxes yesterday afternoon and zeroed in on the location of the other, Xinhua reported. Reports last week that both boxes had been located were wrong.
The black box recovered yesterday was the cockpit voice recorder. The other - the flight data recorder - appeared to be badly damaged, divers said.
Reports have said the pilots radioed ground control minutes before the crash, reporting a fire in the rear of the cabin. But officials have not been able to establish the cause of the accident.
Yesterday, the Beijing Morning Post reported that an emergency meeting of the Civil Aviation Administration of China banned some night flights. The meeting also imposed tighter controls on non-scheduled and charter flights.
