Divers hunt for Indonesian plane’s black boxes
AFP and AP, JAKARTA
Indonesian divers searched waters off Jakarta yesterday for black boxes from a passenger jet that crashed on Saturday with 62 people aboard, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims’ remains.
The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta during heavy rain and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains, but no sign of survivors.
Authorities have said signals from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were detected between Lancang and Laki islands in the Thousand Island chain just north of Jakarta’s coast.
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Indonesian navy divers scoured the floor of the Java Sea on Monday as they hunted for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the water over the weekend with 62 people aboard.
The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains but no sign of survivors.
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(Bloomberg) Search teams at the site of the Sriwijaya Air crash in Indonesia have sent body bags and items of clothing to police for identification as they expand the search for the aircraft’s black boxes.
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The Boeing Co. 737-500 passenger jet carrying 62 people plunged more than 10,000 feet shortly after takeoff at 2:36 p.m. local time Saturday. Investigators said it came down quickly and broke apart after hitting the Java Sea, but haven’t determined a cause for the 26-year-old plane’s crash.