DIVERS RECOVER FLIGHT DATA RECORDER
Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board.
The device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737500 to nosedive into the ocean shortly after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday.
The jet had been out of service for almost nine months because of f light cutbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic, off icials said. It resumed commercial f lights last month.
TV stations showed divers on an inf latable raft with a white container containing the f light data recorder heading to a Jakarta port.
Military chief Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said the plane’s other “black box,” the cockpit voice recorder, was likely to be found soon because its beacon was being emitted in the same area.