China has said the black box flight recorders of a plane that crashed last month were badly damaged and have yet to provide any clues to explain the aircraft’s sudden plunge into a wooded hillside, killing all 132 passengers and crew.China Eastern flight MU5735 was on its way from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21 when it dropped from its cruising altitude into the mountains of Guangxi in the southern part of China. The crash of the Boeing 737-800 was China’s first fatal air crash since 2010.Summarising its preliminary crash report on Wednesday, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) did not include any information from the cockpit voice and data recorders, which have been sent to Washington, DC, for analysis.
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