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The two black boxes from the Boeing that fell into the sea off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta with 62 people on board were located, the Indonesian Transport safety committee announced on Sunday.
“We have located the black boxes, both of them” said Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of the committee, which is part of the Ministry of Transport.
“Divers are going to start looking for them and I hope it won’t be long before they find them.”.
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In addition, body parts, fragments and a pink pants were found this Sunday on the coast of the Indonesian capitala, Jakarta, where a Boeing making a domestic flight with 62 people on board crashed into the sea.
Health workers spray disinfectant on bags containing human remains recovered from the crash site of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 in the port of Jakarta.
A signal from the plane was detected during search operations in the Java Sea, but it seems unlikely that survivors will be found.
The aircraft of the Indonesian airline Sriwijaya Air which covering the route between Jakarta and Pontianak, in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, lost contact with air traffic controllers on Saturday shortly after 2:40 PM (0740 GMT), about four minutes after takeoff.
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At the moment the authorities have not provided details about the possible causes of what happened.
“This morning we received two bags, one with the passengers’ belongings and the other with body parts”Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus told Metro TV. The police “are working to identify them,” he said.
Lifeguards and army
The first remains found were taken to the main port of Jakarta, such as a tire and pink shorts, an AFP journalist confirmed.
Hundreds of members of the rescue services, the navy and 10 warships are participating in the search.
Divers have placed orange beacons at at least three sites and sonars are used to locate the fuselage, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.
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The military vessel “detected a signal from the apparatus (…) and a team of divers began to descend and found parts of the plane as fragments and pieces with identification numbers and others, “said Hadi Tjahjanto, commander of the Indonesian armed forces, quoted in a statement from the Ministry of Transport, which did not specify whether it came from the black box.
Rescuers were searching for Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 off the coast of Jakarta.
The plane, which departed from Jakarta Soekarno-Hata International Airport, disappeared from radars shortly after take-off when flying over the Java Sea, near some tourist islands.
Fifty passengers, including 10 children, and all 12 crew members were on board. All of them are Indonesian, authorities said.
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The families of the passengers, very distressed, are waiting for news.
“I have four members of my family on the plane: my wife and my three children,” declared, crying, Yaman Zai, who was waiting for them at the Pontianak airport.
“My wife sent me a photo of the baby today … How can I not have my heart broken?” He told AFP on Sunday night.
Brutal fall
According to data from the FlightRadar24 website, the aircraft reached a height of 11,000 feet (3,350 meters) before plummeting to 250 feet (76.2 meters). Then he lost contact with the control tower.
Indonesian Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi stated that the plane appeared to be drifting off course expected just before disappearing from radar.
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Some fishermen who were near the place, cited by CNN Indonesia and other local media, They said they heard at least one explosion at the time of the incident. The authorities have not confirmed it.
Police transport a piece of debris recovered from the crash site of Flight SJ182.
Dany Krisnadhi. AFP
In October 2018, 189 people were killed when a Boeing 737 MAX crashed into the Java Sea, 12 minutes after takeoff.
This accident and another involving the same aircraft model in Ethiopia, were attributed to technical defects and Boeing was sentenced this week to pay a fine of 2.5 billion dollars for having misled the authorities in the approval process of this model.
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Sriwijaya’s plane does not belong to the controversial new generation of Boeing 737 MAX but is a “classic” Boeing 737, manufactured 26 years ago.
Indonesia’s air transport sector has seen tragedies in recent years and several airlines from this country have been banned in the past in Europe.
AFP
