Indonesia recovers data from black box

JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities have downloaded data from a back box recorder of the Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea last week, officials say.

‘‘We have successfully retrieved information from the flight data recorder,’’ said Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of an investigation being led by Indonesia’s transport safety committee.

Utomo said investigators — including from the US, Singapore and Australia — had retrieved 69 hours of data from 19 flights carried out by the Boeing 737 aircraft, including the JT610 flight that crashed off Karawang, West Java.

The last recorded data is from October 29 at 6.31am Western Indonesia Time, Utomo told a press conference on Sunday.

The Lion Air plane took off from Jakarta’s Soekarno Hatta airport at 6.20am and lost contact with air traffic control about 13 minutes later, as it crashed into the sea off Tanjung Karawang, about 70km east of Jakarta.

All 189 people on board were killed.

Utomo said search and rescue divers were still searching for the second black box, which contains the voice cockpit recording.