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EXPLAINER: Why Indonesia s plane safety record is a concern Indonesian marines look at a large part of a plane recovered from the waters off Java Island where Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 crashed on Saturday, at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. The search for the black boxes of the crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea. Associated Press Indonesian navy personnel use a forklift to carry a large part of a plane recovered from the waters off Java Island where a Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 crashed on Saturday, at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, late Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. The search for the black boxes of the crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian divers have found the casing of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last week, but are still searching for its memory unit, a navy officer said on Friday.
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Earlier this week, divers hoisted from the seabed the other so-called black box, the flight data recorder (FDR), of the 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 jet.
Flight SJ 182 crashed into the Java Sea minutes after take-off from Jakarta with 62 people on board last Saturday.
Air accident investigators have downloaded data from the FDR, which they hope will help determine the cause of the crash though will also want to hear the cockpit voice recordings.
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Maintenance issues and pilot reactions are now the focus of Indonesian accident investigators looking into the loss of the Sriwijaya Air 737-500 on January 9 that killed 62.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the 737’s flight data recorder (FDR) shows the autothrottle system – which automatically controls the aircraft’s engine thrust – was not operating properly on one of the plane’s two engines, as it climbed away from Jakarta.
It adds that it appears that incredibly the pilots did not shut down the malfunctioning autothrottle but tried to correct the system.
With the engine providing full power and the other not, the 737 developed a fatal asymmetrical issue and loss of control.