[ad_1]
Posted at 1:19 pm ET on November 1, 2018 |
The wife of a passenger aboard the fatal Flight 610 Lion Air shared a video of the last moments of her husband before boarding the plane. Inchy Ayorbaba's husband, Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba, recorded passengers preparing to board their flight. (October 31)
AP
An Indonesian soldier at Tanjung Priok harbor in Jakarta passing by debris recovered from the waters where Lion Air flight JT 610 was reported to have taken place in the Java Sea.(Photo: Fauzy Chaniago / Associated Press)
An Indonesian search team recovered a black box from the Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, according to local media reports.
The broadcaster Kompas TV reported that the box was found Thursday morning in the waters off Tanjung Karawang, in western Java, by Indonesian divers from the National Agency for Search and Rescue.
It was brought to the surface and loaded onto a vessel whose condition was intact, according to a diver interviewed by Kompas TV. It did not specify whether the box was the flight data recorder, which collects information on the speed, direction and altitude of the aircraft, or the aircraft. cockpit voice recorder.
Related: Accident Lion Air: The Southwest Uses the Same Boeing Aircraft During the Indonesian Accident
The recovery of the black box will be the first step in understanding why the Lion Air jet, a brand new Boeing 737 Max 8, plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing the 189 people on board. His pilot had requested permission to return to the airport minutes after takeoff, which, according to aviation experts, revealed a technical problem.
The flight was headed for the town of Pangkal Pinang on Bangka – the ninth largest island in Indonesia – when it lost touch.
Flight tracking site data showed erratic speed, altitude and direction in the minutes following the take-off of the previous plane on Sunday.
Passengers flying Sunday between Bali and Jakarta reported problems, including a long delay before takeoff for an engine check and a sudden dropping of the plane during the first minutes of his flight.
Lion Air president Edward Sirait told reporters on Monday that the plane had a technical problem during his previous flight, but had been resolved according to the manufacturer's procedures. He did not provide specific details about this incident.
A similar trend was observed in the data recorded during Monday's fatal flight. Security experts warned, however, that the accuracy of the data needed to be checked against the black squares of the aircraft.
Read or share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/10/31/lion-air-crash-searchers-report-report-recovery-black-box/1842652002/
