Sriwijaya Air plane crash: Indonesia says located black box recorders
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There were 62 people on board, including seven children and three babies.
Authorities have pinpointed the location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet, they said Sunday, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could be crucial to understanding what happened to the aircraft, which had 62 people aboard.
“We have located the position of the black boxes, both of them,” said Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia’s transport safety agency.
“Divers will start looking for them now and hopefully it won’t be long before we get them.”
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people . . .
Indonesian rescuers pull out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the sea after the Sriwijaya Air plane presumed to have crashed just minutes after takeoff.