Crashed China Eastern jet yields 49K pieces

BEIJING: Chinese officials said on Thursday that the search for wreckage in last week's crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 was basically done and that more than 49,000 pieces of debris had been found.

Flight MU5735 plunged from 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) into a mountainside in southern China's Guangxi region, killing all 132 people on board. The impact created a 20-m (65-ft) deep crater, set off a fire in the surrounding forest and smashed the plane into small parts scattered over a wide area, some of them buried underground.