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Chinese authorities say one of the black boxes from an airliner which dived vertically into a hillside with 132 people on board has been found, but in a severely damaged condition.

The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet that crashed Monday was traveling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of flight-track data.

The China Eastern Airlines Corp. jet was flying a normal route to Guangzhou when it suddenly nosed over at cruise altitude and dove.

No survivors have been found since the plane plunged from its cruising altitude during a flight to Guangzhou on Monday.

As mystery surrounds how the aircraft fell from the sky with such speed, aviation experts have said there appears to be 30 seconds unaccounted for - from the final 150 seconds recorded

A search is under way around heavily forested slopes for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines jet after it crashed on Monday in the mountains of southern Guangxi with 132 people on board

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn across mountain slopes charred by fire…

The crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet in China’s southwest started a fire big enough to be seen from space and forced rescuers to search a rugged, remote mountainside

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