San Francisco Chronicle

Divers recover data recorder

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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 in heavy rain shortly after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday. More than 3,600 rescue personnel, 13 helicopter­s, 54 large ships and 20 small boats are searching the area just north of Jakarta where Flight 182 crashed and have found parts of the plane and human remains in the water at a depth of 75 feet.

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