Indonesia divers seek out crashed Sriwijaya Surroundings plane's second black box
13 January, 2021
Indonesian investigators said on Wednesday (Jan 13) they were hopeful of retrieving a crashed passenger jet's second black box, as they seek to make clear why the plane with 62 persons aboard slammed into the sea minutes after takeoff.
Divers just off the coast of the administrative center Jakarta hauled the jet's flight data recorder to the top on Tuesday, with the hunt right now centered on finding its cockpit tone of voice recorder on the wreckage-littered seabed.
The devices could source-critical clues as to the reasons the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000ft in under one minute before slamming into the Java Sea on Saturday.
"The search continues today and we're longing for a good result," Rasman MS, the brain of the search and rescue agency's crash functions, told reporters.
Black box data includes the speed, altitude, and direction of the plane and also air travel crew conversations, and assists explain nearly 90 % of all crashes, according to aviation pros.
So far authorities have already been unable to make clear why the 26-year-old plane crashed only four minutes after takeoff.
The US National Transportation Safety Panel (NTSB) said it had been sending investigators to Jakarta along with personnel from Boeing, the US Government Aviation Administration, and GE Aviation, making jet engines and other plane parts.
"(The) team has experience in operations, human effectiveness, airplane structures & devices," the NTSB tweeted.
A lot more than 3,000 staff are taking part in the recovery work, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters flying over small islands off the capital's coast, and a good remotely operated auto to aid the divers.
"This operation is not over yet," Indonesia's armed service chief Hadi Tjahjanto explained late Tuesday.
"We'll keep searching for the victims and all of the remaining elements of the fuselage, which we will attempt to retrieve."
MISINFORMATION
Three more victims have already been identified by complementing fingerprints on file to areas of the body retrieved from the murky depths, authorities explained on Wednesday, incorporating a 50-year-old female passenger and a 38-year-old off-duty pilot.
The first victim, a flight attendant, was also identified through his fingerprints.
There have been 10 children among the passengers on the half-whole plane, which had experienced pilots at the controls as it left Jakarta bound for Pontianak city on Borneo island on a 90-minute flight.
Scores of body totes filled with human remains to be were being taken up to a law enforcement morgue where forensic investigators desire to identify victims by matching fingerprints or perhaps DNA with relatives.
Authorities have up to now said that the crew didn't declare a crisis or report technical problems with the plane before its dive, and that the 737 was likely intact when it again hit the drinking water - citing a comparatively small area where in fact the wreckage was scattered.
The crash probe was more likely to take months, but an initial report was expected in thirty days.
Aviation analysts said flight-tracking info showed the plane sharply deviated from it has the intended course before it again went right into a steep dive, with bad weather, pilot error or perhaps mechanical failing among the potential factors.
The accident has spawned some misinformation online with a pair of pictures claiming that they show a baby who survived the weekend crash. The images actually show an infant rescued from a fatal 2018 boat disaster.
SAFETY PROBLEMS
Sriwijaya Air, which flies to destinations in Indonesia and across Southeast Asia, has already established safety incidents including runway overruns.
But it has not had a fatal crash since beginning operations in 2003.
Its CEO has said the aircraft, which was previously flown by US-based Continental Airlines and United Airlines, was found in fit condition.
Indonesia's fast-developing aviation sector is definitely plagued by safety issues, and its airlines had been once banned from US and European airspace.
In October 2018, 189 people were killed whenever a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX plane crashed near Jakarta.
That accident - and another in Ethiopia - resulted in the grounding of the 737 MAX all over the world over a faulty anti-stall system.
The 737 that transpired on Saturday was initially produced decades ago and had not been a MAX variant.
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