In a bid to locate the black boxes of a crashed Air Asia
plane investigators lifted the tail portion of the jet out of the Java
Sea, on January 10, 2015, Saturday, two weeks after it went down,
killing 162 people on board.
The tail was lifted from the seabed in the water between Indonesian islands of Borneo and Java after investigators detected underwater ping-like sounds.
Although it was unclear whether the sounds were coming from the
recorders or not, the operation to hoist the tail from a depth of about
30 metres
started.
Santoso Sayogo, from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said: “We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings. We have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Unfortunately it seems it’s off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position.”
The recovery of the cockpit voice and flight data recorders is essential to finding out why the Airbus A320 crashed on December 28. Earlier dozens of bodies, the wreckage of the plane was found floating in the waters of the Java Sea, over 100 bodies of passengers from the crash remain unaccounted for.
Details on BBC.
The tail of Air Asia QZ8501 passenger plane, Reuters
started.
Santoso Sayogo, from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said: “We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings. We have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Unfortunately it seems it’s off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position.”
The recovery of the cockpit voice and flight data recorders is essential to finding out why the Airbus A320 crashed on December 28. Earlier dozens of bodies, the wreckage of the plane was found floating in the waters of the Java Sea, over 100 bodies of passengers from the crash remain unaccounted for.
Details on BBC.
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