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A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2022, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: China Finds Flight Recorder as Questions About Crash Mount.

On his flight to London in 1958 to demonstrate his invention, one of the engines of the airplane failed. He turned on his recorder and made observations from his passenger seat.