Body parts, twisted wreckage and clothing were plucked from waters off the Indonesian capital Sunday after a passenger jet with 62 people aboard crashed shortly after take-off a day earlier.
JAKARTA, Indonesia－Authorities on Sunday located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.
Body parts, twisted wreckage and clothing were plucked from waters off the Indonesian capital Sunday after a passenger jet with 62 people aboard crashed shortly after take-off a day earlier.
Investigators in Indonesia are hopeful of discovering the reason why a Boeing 737 with 62 people on board crashed into the sea, after divers yesterday located the plane’s black boxes.
The Sriwijaya Air flight took off from the capital, Jakarta, on Saturday afternoon but soon went into a deep dive into the Java Sea.
There was no sign of any survivors among the 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Ten of the passengers were children.
After almost a day of searching by helicopters and warships, rescuers identified the location of the crash site and the plane’s flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder – otherwise known as the black boxes. A navy ship had detected emergency signals sent out by the boxes. Hadi Tjahjanto, Indonesia’s armed forces commander, said they hoped they could lift the black boxes out soon.