Chinese and U.S. safety investigators have stepped up cooperation in their effort to determine what caused a Boeing 737 flown by China Eastern Airlines to crash last month, killing all 132 people on board.
The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder, discovered at the mountainous crash site in the Guangxi province, has been transferred to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) facility in Washington, according to the agency. U.S. specialists are assisting investigators from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) as they attempt to glean crucial details about the run-up to the tragedy.
An NTSB crash-investigation team also left Friday headed for China to assist the investigation.
“Investigators will limit interactions with those outside of investigation similar to safety protocols at Beijing Olympics, which will allow them to begin work immediately without a quarantine,” the agency said.
