[Workers carry a case at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed, in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China March 24, 2022. (Photo by= REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)]

BEIJING: China's official Xinhua News Agency said on Friday (Mar 25) that the second black box of the crashed China Eastern jet has yet to be found. Earlier, CAAC News, a publication managed by the country's aviation regulator, said that China had found the second black box, but it later deleted the news post from its official social media platforms, Reuters reported.
 
Search and rescue work in the wake of the crash had entered its fourth day as storm clouds retreated with efforts focusing on retrieving the second black box while the first was being decoded and analyzed in Beijing. Emergency workers on the ground have been scouring the forest-clad mountains of China's southern Guangxi region for victims of Flight MU5735. No survivors have been found so far in a tragedy that has shocked the nation.

Rescuers recovered the first of the two black boxes on Wednesday. The device, the plane's cockpit voice recorder, has been sent to Beijing. It could take 10 to 15 days to arrive at a preliminary analysis, and longer before a final conclusion can be presented in a report, according to Chinese state media. Additionally, the investigation is being led by China, but the United States was invited to take part because the Boeing 737-800 was designed and manufactured there.