The second black box from a fatal China Northern air crash that killed 112 people nearly two weeks ago in northeastern Dalian city has been retrieved, state press said Saturday.
The damaged flight data recorder was pulled out of Dalian Bay by divers Saturday afternoon four days after the cockpit voice recorder was retrieved, China Central Television said.
Divers had difficulty locating the flight data recorder because the radio beacon signaller had broken off. Bad weather had also impeded the search, the report said.
The data recorder was in "fairly good shape," the report said, but it was not immediately clear if the data was intact.
The airline's MD-82 passenger jet plunged into waters off the coast of Dalian city in northern China on May 7 shortly after the pilot reported a fire in the rear cabin.
The jet lost contact with ground control minutes after the pilot reported the fire.
Debris from the plane wreckage and the recovered bodies of some 70 or so passengers which have so far have been found also indicate a fierce fire on board the plane.
(Xinhua News Agency May 20, 2002)
