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JAKARTA, Jan.12 (Xinhua): Divers on Tuesday recovered a flight data recorder (FDR), also known as the black box, from the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plane that sank in the water off the coast of the capital. Indonesia, Jakarta, on Saturday, said the Indonesian military commander, Air Chief Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto.
Divers also found the FDR underwater locator beacon (ULB) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) ULB in the area that had been previously detected, the commander said.
Tjahjanto believed that the CVR’s position would be somewhere around the area.
“I received information from the Navy chief of staff at 4:40 pm (Jakarta time) that a black box had been recovered,” he told a news conference at the Jakarta International Container Terminal.
Each FDR and CVR is equipped with an underwater locator beacon.
The head of the National Committee for Transport Safety (KNKT), Soerjanto Tjahjanto, said it would take between two and five days to download all the FDR content. It would then be analyzed by investigators to find out the cause of the fatal flight accident.
Divers from the Indonesian Navy look at the flight data recorder of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 recovered from the Java Sea where the passenger plane crashed in the port of Tanjung Priok, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. – AP
The Sriwijaya plane with flight number SJ-182 and operated by a budget airline crashed shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on Saturday.
The plane with 62 people on board was heading to the city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 10,047 in one day to 846,765, and the death toll rose by 302 to 24,645, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
It was another massive spike, as Indonesia has hit five figures in total daily cases multiple times in recent weeks.
According to the ministry, 7,068 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 695,807.
The virus has spread to the 34 provinces of the country.
Specifically, in the last 24 hours, Jakarta registered 2,669 new cases, West Java 1,540, Central Java 1,323, East Java 844 and South Sulawesi 637.
No more new positive cases were found in Maluku province. – Xinhua
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