Indonesia finds black box as plane crash renews safety concerns

Authorities to analyze Sriwijaya flight records to determine cause of accident

20210112 INDONESIA CRASH rescue operation

Indonesian navy divers prepare to take part in the search and rescue operation for the Sriwijaya Air plane off the Jakarta coast.  © Reuters

SHOTARO TANI, Nikkei staff writer

JAKARTA -- Indonesian search and rescue workers retrieved a black box from Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 on Tuesday, taking them one step closer to determining what happened to the aircraft that crashed into the Java sea on Saturday with 62 people on board, just minutes after take-off from Jakarta.

Divers retrieved the flight data recorder, one of the two black boxes on board the plane. A beacon from the other black box, the cockpit voice recorder, had also been located near the flight data recorder, "[so] we are sure that the cockpit voice recorder will also be found soon," said Hadi Tjahjanto, Indonesia's military chief.

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