MU5735 could have broken in the air

A piece of wreckage from the Boeing 737 that crashed on Monday was found ten kilometers from the crash site. According to experts, this indicates that the plane may have broken apart in mid-air. The piece of debris was 1.30 meters long and ten centimeters wide, Bloomberg reports . It could have either fallen off before the crash or it broke off only because of the high stress during the dive. China Eastern flight MU5735 had plunged almost vertically from an altitude of 8900 meters without a distress call (China.Table reported). Investigators began reading out cockpit recorder recordings Thursday in an effort to track down the cause of the disaster. fin