By Syndicated Content
Jan 12, 2021 9:10 PM
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian divers believe they are close to finding the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea shortly after takeoff with 62 people onboard.
Divers retrieved the plane s flight data recorder (FDR) from the seabed on Tuesday and officials said they had also found the beacon that was attached to the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). God willing, we will find it today, said Navy official Wahyudin Arif, refering to the cockpit voice recorder.
He told KompasTV on Wednesday divers would comb a very narrow area of the seabed for the voice recorder, adding that divers found the first black box by shifting debris on the seabed piece by piece and he suspected the same process would be needed to find the other recorder.
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A day after divers found one of the black boxes belonging to crashed Indonesian jet Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, authorities are still on the lookout for another black box containing the jet s cockpit voice recorder.
Indonesian navy divers on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from the jet that disappeared on Saturday, minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 62 people aboard. The information on both black boxes will be key to the crash investigation.
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Search and rescue personnel carrying a bag containing wreckage from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 at a port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.Credit.Ulet Ifansasti for The New York Times
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