Today (March 28) at 5 pm, the “3.21” China Eastern Airlines MU5735 aircraft flight accident National Emergency Response Headquarters held the ninth press conference to release the latest search situation.
According to the press conference, at present, the excavation of the core area of the accident site, the collection of the remains of the victims, and the clean-up of aircraft wreckage are being carried out in an orderly manner in accordance with scientific and rigorous working principles. After the emergency monitoring equipment for geological disasters in the core area of the accident was installed and put into use, the headquarters organized a re-assessment of the geological disaster risk and the excavation risk of unstable slopes in the core area, and formulated a work plan for the follow-up of large-scale excavation machinery to enter the site to participate in the operation. Access to the outer edge of the core area. As of 12:00 on the 28th, a total of 15,640 searchers have been dispatched to repeatedly search the core area and surrounding key areas. The cumulative search area is about 370,000 square meters, and 36,001 pieces of aircraft wreckage and debris have been found. In the peripheral areas of the core area, in addition to the deployment of manual search, 5 drone aerial photography search groups have been organized, with a cumulative search area of about 9.546 million square meters.
(Reporter Li Jianfei, Zhang Hui, Wang Jie, Yin Zhilei, Li Fuyuan and Mo Xianglong)