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JAKARTA: Investigators were able to recover hours of data from a flight recorder on a crashed Lion Air aircraft as Indonesian authorities expanded search at sea to search for casualties and debris.
Vice President of the National Committee on Transportation Safety, Haryo Satmiko, said at a press conference yesterday that 69 hours of flight data had been downloaded from the recorder, including its fatal flight.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed a few minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, killing 189 passengers in the country's worst air disaster since 1997.
The flight data recorder was found Thursday by divers in a damaged state and investigators said that he needed special treatment to retrieve his information.
The cockpit voice recorder has not been found, but researchers are focusing on a particular area based on a weak locator signal.
The head of the National Agency for Search and Rescue, Muhammad Syaugi, said yesterday that the search operation, which was in its seventh day and involving hundreds of staff and dozens of ships, would continue for another three days.
Handle with care: Indonesian rescuers unload part of an engine recovered from the wreck of a Jakarta port. – AFP
Syaugi paid tribute to volunteer diver Syahrul Anto, who died during the search on Friday.
The 48-year-old family refused an autopsy and was buried on Saturday in Surabaya.
More than 100 body bags of human remains have been found. Syaugi said that the number would continue to increase and that the remains were also washing on the ground.
He added that weak signals, possibly from the cockpit voice recorder, had been located but no objects had been found because of the deep seabed mud. .
The flight tracking websites showed that the plane had an erratic speed and altitude during its 13 minute flight and a previous flight the day before between Bali and Jakarta.
Passengers on the Bali flight reported terrifying descents, and in both cases cockpit crews requested to return to the departure airport shortly after take-off.
Lion said that a technical problem had been solved after the Bali fight.
Mr. Syaugi stated that a considerable amount of "skin" of the aircraft had been found on the bottom of the sea, but not a large part of his fuselage, as he had indicated, was possible Saturday.
With other senior officials, including the chief of the army, he planned to meet with families today to explain the search operation. – AP
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