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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian divers resumed Friday their search for a second black box in the middle of the ruins of an almost new aircraft that hit the sea off Jakarta this week, killing 189 people in edge.
Rescuers are loading salvaged debris from Lion Air Flight JT610 into a truck at Tanjung Priok Harbor in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 2, 2018. REUTERS / Edgar Su
The researchers found that only one part of a black box and only one passenger among the remains after air traffic control lost contact with the plane 13 minutes after the take off of it on Monday.
Efforts are now focused on recovering the second of the two black boxes, with the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder being known, said the head of the Indonesian Committee on Transportation Safety.
"The team has heard the sound of" ping "in another black box for two days," said Soerjanto Tjahjono to Reuters.
The bottom of the sea is only 30 m (98 ft) deep, but strong currents and nearby power lines prevented the search for the aircraft operated by the low-cost airline Lion Air, which was heading to the mining town of Pangkal Pinang at the time of his crash.
Victims' families are desperate to find out what happened, but the investigation into the first crash of a Boeing Co 737 MAX, which entered service only in August, is also at the center of the concerns of the global aviation industry .
Navy divers on Thursday pulled out of the muddy bottom the memory unit able to survive a crash of a black box, hoping that its stored data would show what was wrong with JT610 flight, whose pilot had been given permission to turn back before the accident.
But the damage to the aircraft reflected the severity of the impact, investigators said, adding that they still did not know which black box, housed at opposite ends of the plane , came from.
The Indonesian transport safety group is committed to transferring the data as quickly as possible, which may take up to two hours, although the analysis may take several weeks.
The results of a preliminary investigation will be made public after 30 days, said a panel leader.
Indonesia is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world. Its transport safety group investigated 137 serious aeronautical incidents between 2012 and 2017.
Chart: Plane crash in Indonesia – tmsnrt.rs/2OZPYBz
Report by Cindy Silviana and Agustinus Beo Da Costa; Written by Ed Davies and Fergus Jensen; Edited by Clarence Fernandez
