Why Airplane Black Boxes Are So Hard to Find After Crashes
- Lion Air jetliner slammed into sea near Jakarta on Monday
- Absent streaming capabilities, flight recorders must be found
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Once again, the world is transfixed with an undersea search to solve the mystery of why an airliner plunged into the ocean.
With images of the years-long unsuccessful search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 still fresh, the Indonesian government has dispatched 34 boats and more than 800 military and civilian personnel in search of a Lion Air plane that went down violently on Monday with 189 people on board, all of whom are feared dead. Divers hadn’t located the aircraft’s underwater resting place as of Tuesday night.