Indonesian navy divers are scouring the floor of the Java Sea as they hunt for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the waters at high.
Indonesian Divers Find Parts of Wrecked Boeing Plane in Java Sea
On Jan. 10, Indonesian Navy divers pull out airplane pieces during a search for the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed Jan. 9. (Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press)
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JAKARTA, Indonesia Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Jan. 10, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia’s capital.
The head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, Bagus Puruhito, said officials believe they identified the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder the so-called black boxes because emergency signals transmitted by the devices were detected by a navy ship’s sonar system.
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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.