One of two black boxes from the China Eastern plane that crashed on Monday has been found severely damaged, investigators have said.
The recorder is so damaged that they are not able to tell whether it is the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder.
Flight MU5735, a Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 passengers and crew, was travelling between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it plunged from cruising altitude and crashed into mountains in the Guangxi region.
There were no survivors, state broadcasters confirmed on Tuesday.
Mao Yanfeng, the accident investigation director of the Civil Aviation Authority of China, told a news conference that an all-out effort was under way to find the other black box.
Heavy rain has halted the search so far and rain water has filled the crater in the soft soil caused by the impact of the crash, according to state television.
Earlier, searchers had used hand tools, drones and sniffer dogs in pouring rain to comb the heavily forested slopes for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, as well as any human remains.
There was a risk of landslides, torrents and high winds as conditions worsened in the area, the local Guangxi weather bureau said.
Video clips posted by state media showed small pieces of the aircraft scattered over the area.
Mud-stained wallets, bank and identity cards have also been recovered. Each piece of debris has a number next to it, the larger ones marked off by police tape.
Relatives of passengers began arriving on Wednesday at the gate to Lu village just outside the crash zone, where they were stopped by police and officials who used opened umbrellas to block the view beyond.
One woman, who said she had two children, made an emotional appeal to officials on site, begging to enter the area where the plane that killed her husband had crashed.
A 57-year old man, who gave only his surname as Ding, said his sister-in-law was on the plane.
"My heart sank all of a sudden," he said of learning about the plane's accident.
What caused the crash?
Investigators say it is too early to speculate on the cause of the crash and that the severe damage to the aircraft is hampering efforts. The plane went into a dive mid-flight and stopped transmitting data 96 seconds into the fall.
FlightRadar24 data showed the aircraft plunged at a rate of 31,000ft a minute - the height of a 50-storey building
every second.
An aviation safety official says an air-traffic controller tried to contact the pilots after seeing the sharp altitude drop, but got no reply.
Another official said the jet had met airworthiness standards before take-off and crew members had been in good health.
The plane had three pilots on board on its final flight, which is one more than normally required on a 737.
China's aviation safety record
China had made great strides in improving air safety standards over the past two decades, and Monday's disaster was
the first major crash in a dozen years.
Having rushed to Guangxi to oversee the emergency operations, Vice Premier Liu He held a meeting on Tuesday during
which officials were urged to go "all out in their search as long as there is a glimmer of hope".
The disaster prompted the aviation regulator to launch a two-week inspection of the sector that will involve checks at
all regional air traffic control bureaus, airline companies and flight training institutes to ensure "absolute" safety.
Since the crash, China Eastern and two subsidiaries have grounded their fleet of more than 200 Boeing 737-800
jets.
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