Saturday’s plane crash in Indonesia, in which a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 carrying 62 people plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff, has once again cast the limelight on the safety of the country’s aviation industry
Indonesia locates black boxes of plane that crashed into sea with 62 onboard
Indonesian authorities on Sunday located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, as human body parts and pieces of the plane were retrieved.
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Posted: Jan 10, 2021 10:44 AM ET | Last Updated: January 10
Soldiers and rescue personnel carry debris found in the waters off Java island around where a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet crashed, at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday.(Dita Alangkara/The Associated Press)
Indonesian authorities on Sunday located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, as human body parts and pieces of the plane were retrieved.
Rescuers on Sunday collected five bags of human body parts and three bags of debris of the Sriwijaya Airplane that crashed in the waters off the coast of the In
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Indonesia: Boeing Plane Wreckage Found In Java Sea, Rescue Operations Underway
Indonesia’s Boeing 737-500 jet which was flying with 62 people on board from the capital Jakarta to the island of Borneo has been located at a depth of 75 feet.
Indonesia’s Boeing 737-500 jet which was flying with 62 people on board from the capital Jakarta to the island of Borneo has been located at a depth of 75 feet in the Java Sea a day after plane lost contact with air traffic controllers after take off. According to the latest reports, authorities said that they were hopeful they were homing in on the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 after they picked up a signal that came in from the jet’s flight recorder. Rescuers said that they found body parts and pieces of the plane.
Indonesia National Transport Safety Committee chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said the locations of the two black boxes of crashed Sriwijaya Air plane have been identified on Sunday after nearly a day of searching.