A day after recovering the data recorder, divers Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice black box from the AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea two weeks ago with 162 people aboard, an Indonesian official said.
The cockpit recorder was aboard an Indonesian navy vessel headed for Jakarta, where both devices will be analyzed, a transportation official told MetroTV, Reuters reported.
Divers found the cockpit voice recorder, which holds two hours of conversations between the pilot, co-pilot, crew and air traffic control, just hours after the retrieval of the flight data recorder from under a wing Monday, said Suryadi Supriyadi, operation coordinator at the national search and rescue agency. The voice recorder was wedged under heavy pieces of wreckage nearby.
Supriyadi said that initial findings suggest the jet may have exploded on impact with the water after plummeting more than 30,000 feet.
The recovery of the black boxes is key to determining what caused the Dec. 28 crash of the Airbus A320 less than an hour into its scheduled two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Authorities have said it could take weeks to download all the information the boxes provide.
“There’s like 200-plus parameters they record,” said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board member. “It’s going to provide us an ocean of material.”.. see more
source: usatoday
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