CVR of Indonesia’s crashed Sriwijaya Air plane downloaded

JAKARTA: The Cockpit Voice Recorder of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed into the Java Sea on Jan 9 this year has been downloaded, reported Xinhua, quoting the National Transportation Safety Committee yesterday.

The downloading will reveal the cause of the deaths of 62 people aboard the ill-fated aircraft, the committee’s chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said, adding that a two-hour conversation was recorded including seconds before the plane crashed.

“We managed to download all four channels from the CVR, but channel 4 was disrupted,” said Tjahjono.

However, the existing recordings have added important data for the investigation, whose results will be presented in the final report, he said.

The Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea after taking off from Jakarta on a domestic flight with two pilots, four cabin crew members, and 56 passengers.

The Boeing 737-500 Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 disappeared from radar screens after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province at around 2:30pm local time, 30 minutes after the scheduled time because of heavy rains.

The Flight Data Recorder was retrieved three days after the crash.