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Indonesian navy recovers ‘black box’ from crashed plane
Members of the National Transportation Safety Committee carry a box containing the flight data recorder of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 retrieved from the Java Sea where the passenger jet crashed at the Tanjung Priok Port, last week
INDONESIAN navy divers searching the ocean floor today recovered the black box from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend with 62 people on board.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the device was the plane’s flight-data or cockpit-voice recorder, but the recovery is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on Saturday.
More than 3,600 rescuers, 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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