Indonesian Navy divers have recovered the flight information recorder from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Saturday with 62 folks aboard, officers mentioned Tuesday.
Stays of among the victims have been additionally introduced ashore in dozens of physique luggage, officers mentioned. Up to now, 4 victims have been recognized. No survivors from the flight are anticipated to be discovered.
The short restoration of the flight information recorder, generally often called a “black field” and one in all two on the plane, will assist officers perceive why the 26-year-old Boeing 737-500 crashed simply 4 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, the capital. The aircraft was certain for Pontianak on the island of Borneo, a flight of about 90 minutes.
The divers retrieved the flight information recorder from the wreckage in about 90 ft of water between the small islands of Lancang and Laki, officers mentioned.
The Boeing carried two information recorders at reverse ends of the aircraft: a flight information recorder within the tail of the aircraft, which may present details about the jet’s mechanical operation throughout its transient flight; and a cockpit voice recorder that information the dialog between the pilot and co-pilot.
Investigators hope that evaluation of the knowledge discovered on each gadgets can present a transparent image of what occurred through the flight.
The aircraft plunged practically 11,000 ft shortly after takeoff from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Worldwide Airport and the wreckage is unfold over an space about 1,200 ft lengthy and 300 ft large, the authorities mentioned.
The comparatively compact dimension of the particles area is in keeping with an plane that didn’t explode earlier than hitting the water.
Every information recorder has an underwater acoustic beacon that emits a sign within the occasion of a crash to assist searchers get better the recorders.
However on this case, the acoustic beacon broke lose from the cockpit voice recorder and was discovered individually, mentioned the commander of the Indonesian Nationwide Armed Forces, Hadi Tjahjanto.
Divers are persevering with to seek for the recorder itself, he instructed reporters.
“We’re sure the cockpit voice recorder will likely be discovered as effectively,” he mentioned.
Sriwijaya Air launched an announcement saying that the plane had obtained a certificates of airworthiness from the Transportation Ministry of Transportation that was legitimate by means of Dec. 17, 2021.
A ministry spokeswoman, Adita Irawati, mentioned the plane’s working certificates had been prolonged in November.
“Sriwijaya Air has met the stipulated situations,” she mentioned.
The most recent crash provides to a listing of earlier airline tragedies in Indonesia. Air Asia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo in December 2014. And in October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 nose-dived into the Java Sea northeast of Jakarta, minutes after takeoff.
Dera Menra Sijabat contributed reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia.
