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Published: 12 Jan 2021 04:48 PM BdST
Updated: 12 Jan 2021 04:48 PM BdST Indonesian navy divers stand on a rubber boat next to Indonesian naval warship KRI Rigel 933, during the search and rescue operation for the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, at the sea off the Jakarta coast, Indonesia, Jan 12, 2021. REUTERS
Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday. The recording device was being transported to Jakarta s port, spokesman Fajar Tri Rohadi told Reuters. );
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Local television footage had earlier showed a white plastic box holding the device aboard a speed boat.
Indonesian search team recovers black box at Sriwijaya plane crash site
An Indonesian search team has recovered one of the two black boxes that belonged to the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in the Java Sea with 62 people on board, a crucial instrument for investigators probing the cause of the crash.
The flight data recorder was found as a team including divers and a remotely operated underwater vehicle swept the sea floor in search of the black boxes that were on flight SJ 182 when it crashed shortly after takeoff three days ago.
Flight data recorders process a flight’s information, including pressure, airspeed and altitude. The second black box, the cockpit voice recorder, has not yet been found.
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