Black box of SJ-182 plane found in Indonesia | Revealing the secrets of Sriwijaya Air?

Antara news agency reported that at about 4:30 pm on January 12, the Indonesian Navy's diving team recovered the black box that recorded the flight data of the plane with number SJ-182 operated by Sriwijaya Air. operate. The team of divers found the black box about 23 meters below the sea surface.

The black box was delivered to the JICT pier at Tanjung Priok port, North Jakarta. Divers from the Indonesian Navy's joint group transferred the black box to a navy ship bound for JICT. After that, the black box was handed over to the National Traffic Safety Committee for inspection. In the coming days, this committee will download the data of the black boxes and use them as a basis to determine the cause of the plane crash.

Indonesian Army Commander Hadi Tjahjanto on the same day expressed his confidence that the black box recording the cockpit of the crashed plane would soon be found. Tjahjanto made this statement at a joint press conference on January 12, after Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi confirmed that the flight data recorder had been recovered.

After the data from the black box was recovered, the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee said it hoped to be able to read the information in three days. Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi and officials will hold a press conference on January 12 to inform about this.

As previously reported, Sriwijaya Air's Boeing 737-500 aircraft SJ-182 carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea at 2:36 am on January 9, just 4 minutes after Take off from the airport in Jakarta According to the plan, this plane will land at Supadi airport in Pontianak city, at 3:50 pm on the same day.

On the morning of January 12, many bodies were found at the scene of the accident, as well as personal items, including a wallet containing an identification card.

With no clues as to what led to the crash, investigators are now counting on extracting data from the two black boxes to be able to determine what happened on board the ill-fated plane.

Minister Budi Karya Sumadi also announced three directives from President Joko Widodo on handling the Sriwijaya Air plane crash. Specifically, Mr. Widodo asked the rescue forces to find the black box, recover the victim's body and the wreckage of the crashed plane as soon as possible. In addition, the President requested to immediately settle the insurance and compensation regime for the families of the victims according to current regulations. Mr. Widodo directed to urgently find out the cause of the accident and see this incident as a lesson to improve the quality of the national aviation industry.

Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment, said the plane crash reminded the government to consider improving the domestic aircraft maintenance system.

This is the second major air crash in Indonesia since the death of 189 passengers and crew in 2018. At that time, the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX plane also crashed into the Java Sea after take off from Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air plane is nearly 27 years old, much older than the 737 MAX model of 2018, according to Reuters news agency.

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