AirAsia Jet’s Black Box Found by Divers in Plane Wreckage
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Search teams began retrieving the black boxes from the wreckage of the AirAsia Bhd. jetliner, which will help investigators unlock how QZ8501 plunged into the Java Sea with 162 people on board.
The flight-data recorder has arrived in Jakarta and is in good condition, Masruri, an air accident researcher from the National Transportation Safety Committee, told reporters today. It holds information such as the plane’s altitude and speed. Searchers also found the cockpit-voice recorder, which captures conversations between the ground and the pilots, yet have been unable to retrieve it so far from the seabed, said S.B. Supriyadi, operations director at the national search agency.