Search Intensifies for Black Box of Doomed Sriwijaya Air Flight Bloomberg 1/14/2021 Harry Suhartono and Siddharth Philip
(Bloomberg) Indonesia’s transport ministry ordered the nation’s airlines to inspect their older, so-called classic Boeing Co. 737 aircraft following Saturday’s crash of a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet with 62 people on board.
The cause of the crash isn’t yet known divers are still trying to retrieve the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage in the Java Sea. The flight-data recorder was recovered Tuesday. Rescue workers have been bringing in bags of human remains for identification, along with parts of the Boeing 737-500 plane, which was nearly 27 years old.
Red Cross workers pictured spraying body bags, Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
A reported 36 body bags have been recovered from the wreckage of flight SJ182
It plunged 10,000ft into the Java Sea within four minutes of takeoff from Jakarta
Officials said that divers had resumed their search for the remaining victims
Funeral for one of the victims - Okky Bisma, a flight attendant - held on Thursday