2nd 鈥榖lack box鈥 of Lion Air plane recovered
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Navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, Indonesian officials said yesterday, in a possible boost to the investigation into why the 2-month-old plane nosedived at high velocity, killing 189 people.
Ridwan Djamaluddin, a deputy maritime minister, told reporters that remains of some of the people who died in the crash were also discovered at the seabed location.
A spokesman for the Indonesian navy鈥檚 western fleet, Lieutenant Colonel Agung Nugroho, said divers using high-tech 鈥減ing locator鈥 equipment started a new search effort last week in a previously identified target area and found the voice recorder beneath 8 meters of seabed mud. The plane crashed in waters 30 meters deep.
The bright orange device was transported to a port in Jakarta, where it was handed over to the National Transportation Safety Committee, which is overseeing the accident investigation.
鈥淭his is good news, especially for us who lost our loved ones,鈥 said Irianto, the father of Rio Nanda Pratama, a doctor who died in the crash. 鈥淓ven though we don鈥檛 yet know the contents of the CVR, this is some relief from our despair.鈥
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia鈥檚 capital, on October 29, killing everyone on board.
The cockpit data recorder was recovered three days after the crash and showed that the jet鈥檚 airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its last four flights. Lion Air initially claimed that problems with the aircraft were fixed before its final flight.
If the voice recorder is undamaged, it could provide valuable additional information to investigators.
The transport committee鈥檚 chairman, Soerjanto Tjahjono, said the device will be taken to the investigators鈥 鈥渂lack box鈥 facility.
It will take three to five days to dry and clean the device and to download its data, he said.
鈥淭o analyze it, we need more time, depending on the complexity of the problem. Data obtained from CVR is expected to complete our investigation data,鈥 Tjahjono said.
Data from a preliminary investigation report, which didn鈥檛 come to any conclusions, showed that the plane鈥檚 nose pointed down 26 times on its fatal 11-minute flight despite repeated efforts by the pilots to manually aim the nose higher.
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