Hong Kong | Rescuers found one of the flight recorders of the Boeing 737 plane that crashed in southern China with more than 130 people on board, officials said on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), as regulators and the airline faced growing pressure to release more information about the disaster.

Search efforts have been under way since the plane plummeted into a rural mountainside on Monday. The device recovered from the China Eastern Airlines plane was believed to be the cockpit voice recorder, officials said during a brief news conference. More fragments of the aircraft and body parts were also recovered.