The Straits Times
Indonesian navy divers retrieve flight data recorder from Sriwijaya Air plane
The device is one of two black boxes that will play a key role in investigations into the air crash.PHOTO: REUTERS
A navy diver shows a broken piece of the cover for the flight data recorder on Jan 12, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
It would take two to five days to download the data from the flight data recorder.PHOTO: AFP
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Divers hunt for Indonesian plane’s black boxes
AFP and AP, JAKARTA
Indonesian divers searched waters off Jakarta yesterday for black boxes from a passenger jet that crashed on Saturday with 62 people aboard, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims’ remains.
The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta during heavy rain and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains, but no sign of survivors.
Authorities have said signals from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were detected between Lancang and Laki islands in the Thousand Island chain just north of Jakarta’s coast.
Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board.