Updated at 6:50 a.m. ET Indonesian navy divers recovered a flight data recorder from the ocean floor at the site of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into
Sudden Descents Are Rare But Deadly: Clues to Jakarta Jet Crash
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January 11, 2021
Search and rescue team members examine debris recovered from the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 crash site on the dockside at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Indonesian President Joko Widodo confirmed the plane had crashed about 20 hours after it went missing following its departure from capital Jakarta, calling on all parties to expend all efforts to search for and rescue the victims.
(Bloomberg) The crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 still a vexing mystery falls into a broad category of airliners that suddenly plunge out of the sky.
Indonesian Divers Retrieve Flight Recorder From Jet Crash Bloomberg 1/12/2021 Rieka Rahadiana, Eko Listiyorini and Alan Levin
(Bloomberg) Indonesian Navy divers retrieved one of the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing Co. jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Saturday, a key step in discovering what caused the aircraft carrying 62 people to crash.
Black boxes are crucial to understanding what happened as they capture sound in the cockpit and monitor flight data. The aircraft in this instance was a nearly 27-year-old 737-500, not the much newer Boeing 737 Max just emerging from a 20-month grounding. The Max was grounded globally after two crashes, including a Lion Air flight in October 2018 that also plummeted into Indonesia’s Java Sea.