Sriwijaya Air plane crash: Another black box of Indonesian plane recovered
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The plane had crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from the Jakarta international airport. The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the Indonesian plane that crashed in January killing all the 62 people on board, has been recovered, which will significantly help investigators find out the cause of the accident, an official said.
The CVR was recovered on Wednesday from the seafloor near the spot where the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) was retrieved days after the crash on January 9, spokesman of the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua news agency.
Investigators said they are still struggling to understand why the jet nosedived into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people on board
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When we conducted a reverse image search on the viral image, we found search results from 2018. While going through the search results, we found a news report published on
s Indonesian website. The news report published on 7 July 2018 detailed five ship accidents that took place in Indonesian waters.
The news report carried the same photo and it was captioned in Indonesian, “A 3-year-old toddler managed to survive thanks to his mother s embrace. In the KM Lestari Maju accident, an unidentified toddler was also found. Photo: Special / Mongabay Indonesia.”
When we searched for “KM Lestari Maju accident”, we found reports of the ship by the same name that sank off the coast off Bulukumba, South Indonesia. Indonesia’s disaster agency told news agencies that at least 34 people died in the accident while 155 passengers were rescued.
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Indonesia plane crash: Body parts, debris found at Sriwijaya Air flight crash site
Indonesian rescuers pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the Java Sea early Sunday morning, a day after a Boeing 737-500 with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, officials said.
Officials were hopeful they were honing in on the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 after sonar equipment detected a signal from the aircraft.
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi told reporters that authorities have launched massive search efforts after identifying âthe possible location of the crash site.â
âThese pieces were found by the SAR team between Lancang Island and Laki Island,â National Search and Rescue Agency Bagus Puruhito in a statement.