Monday, 11 Jan 2021 03:19 PM MYT
Indonesian rescue members carry a body bag from Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the sea, at International Container Terminal port in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 11, 2021. Reuters pic
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JAKARTA, Jan 11 Indonesian navy divers scouring the sea bed were closing in on data recorders from a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea two days ago with 62 people on board minutes after take-off from Jakarta’s main airport.
With little prospect now of finding survivors, authorities also said that there would be a focus on recovering the bodies of victims.
Indonesia identified a victim from the Sriwijaya Air crash on Monday as emergency crews prepared to send in a remotely operated underwater vehicle to search for the jet's cockpit recorders in the sea.
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.
Rescue teams in Indonesia are gearing up for day two of their search for the missing Boeing Co. jet carrying 62 people that at least one agency has characterized as a crash after uncovering debris that are “strongly suspected” to be part of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182. The plane lost radio contact shortly after taking off from Jakarta Saturday afternoon. The country’s search agency said the debris found in the Java Sea is similar to those circulating earlier on social media, and its efforts Sunday will include both air and sea, and also underwater. A local news organization said authorities received a report of a plane crashing on a nearby uninhabited island in an area north of the capital city.