Indonesian divers searching the sea floor have recovered one of the black boxes from Flight SJ182. The recovery operation has been hindered by tons of debris and layers of mud.
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By Press Association 2021
Police officers carry a part of aircraft recovered from the Java Sea where a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet crashed
Indonesian navy divers are still searching through plane debris and seabed mud looking for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the Java Sea over the weekend with 62 people aboard.
A navy ship earlier picked up intense pings being emitted from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 737-500 that went down on Saturday minutes after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, in heavy rain.
The divers were using high-tech “ping locator” equipment to further narrow their hunt beneath 20 metres (65 feet) of seabed mud but the black boxes are buried under a bulk of sharp objects in the wreckage, Navy chief admiral Yudo Margono said.
Indonesian divers searching the sea floor have recovered one of the black boxes from Flight SJ182. The recovery operation has been hindered by tons of debris and layers of mud.
Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved from the sea bed the flight data recorder (FDR) of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board at the weekend, officials said.