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JAKARTA (Indonesia) – A diver has died in search of victims of a Lion Air jetliner in the Java Sea, research officials said Saturday as research teams continued their search
Boeing
of the
second black box and recovery of the remains of the 189 people who were aboard the plane.
According to the Indonesian search and rescue agency Syahrul Anto, a 48-year-old diver, veteran of other operations, including a crash of AirAsia in the Java Sea there are nearly four years, died Friday of flight 610 in the area of the debris field underwater. The agency has not indicated a cause of death.
Monday's crash was the first involving a Boeing 737 Max 8, the latest variant of the popular 737 unibody. The aircraft was delivered to Lion Air, one of the largest low-cost carriers in Asia, in August.
A team of Indonesian and US investigators, made up of representatives of Boeing Co. and
General Electric
Co.
, partner of the engine manufacturer CFM International, saw a wreckage recovered in a port of Jakarta. The officials expressed the hope that they would not need to rebuild the entire device to understand the cause.
"We will try to recover as much as possible," said Nurcahyo Utomo, an investigator with the Indonesian Committee for Transport Safety. "If the recorders do not provide all the information, we will strive to rebuild the entire aircraft as much as possible."
The search teams did not find one of the black boxes, a badpit voice recorder, but they hope to find it quickly by guiding it against the pings it can emit in the water during less 30 days.
"Early this morning, we heard the sound of a ping even though it was rather weak," said Muhammad Syaugi, head of the search and rescue agency.
Divers have recovered the memory unit from the other black box, the flight data recorder, at a depth of about 100 feet on the muddy bottom. Mr Utomo said Saturday that the device was in good condition.
Investigators clean the unit to download data that could give them hours of detailed information about the operation of the systems. On a modern aircraft like the 737 Max 8, it would record more than 1,000 parameters, from basic speed and altitude to flight control inputs.
-I Made Sentana contributed to this article.
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