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Searchers Hunting for Indonesia Recorder After Finding Its Case
- Voice recorder’s crucial memory chips are still on seabed
- Jet’s flight-data unit has been downloaded, investigators say
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Indonesian divers retrieved the battered casing of the cockpit voice recorder from the Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea on Jan. 9, but not the crucial memory unit containing its data.
The computer chips that store a recording of pilot communications and ambient sounds in the cockpit broke loose from the so-called black box’s exterior, the Indonesian authorities said Friday.