
Indonesia finds Sriwijaya Air jet's cockpit voice recorder
India Today
Indonesian navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of Sriwijaya Air jet that had crashed in January, killing all 62 people on board.
Indonesian navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in January, killing all 62 people on board, officials said Wednesday. Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said divers retrieved the cockpit recorder at about 08.00 pm. Tuesday local time, near where the flight data recorder was recovered three days after the accident. The contents of the recorder were not immediately available. However, the device could help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 to nosedive into the ocean in heavy rain shortly after it took off from Jakarta on January 9.
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