Investigators locate black box from Indonesia air crash Ruby Mellen
Replay Video UP NEXT Investigators have located the black box from the Indonesian passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday with 62 people aboard, Indonesian officials said Sunday, a discovery that could offer clues to why the plane suddenly lost contact with air traffic controllers just minutes after taking off. Bagus Puruhito, chief of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, said navy ships had detected emergency signals from the flight’s data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, the Associated Press reported.
[Indonesian plane with 62 aboard is missing; rescue workers recover possible debris]
Updated: 10 Jan 2021, 18:24
Rathi Windania posted pictures of three laughing children before boarding the Boeing 737 that crashed into the sea carrying 62 passengers and crew members just minutes after takeoff.
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Her brother Irfansyah Riyanto desperately waits for information on his five family members on board the planeCredit: Instagram
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Divers have began to locate personal items of the passengersCredit: AP:Associated Press
She sent the pictures from Jakarta s airport alongside the message: Bye bye family. We re heading home for now, with two emojis blowing kisses.
The flight took off from the Indonesian capital on Saturday bound for Pontianak, on the Indonesian side of Borneo, when it lost contact at 2:40pm.
Authorities said they know the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the Boeing 737-500 that went down in the Java Sea with 62 people on board.
Low-cost air carriers including Lion Air which saw one of its planes crash in 2018, killing 189 people flooded the market, enabling flying to become a common way for many to travel across the vast archipelago nation, which has many areas that still lack efficient or safe transportation infrastructure
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