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China finds second black box of crashed Boeing plane: State media

In a late night news conference on Saturday, officials announced that all of the people onboard, including nine crew members, have been confirmed dead

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Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box--the flight data recorder--from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in southern China, state media reported.'

Flight MU5735, with 132 people onboard, was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou on the coast on Monday when it plummeted from cruising altitude at about the time when it should have started its landing descent.'

There had been little hope of finding any survivors. In a late night news conference on Saturday, officials announced that all of the people onboard, including nine

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