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After the aircraft tragedy in Indonesia, which probably left 62 dead, search parties had recovered parts of the Boeing 737-500 turbine from the sea by Monday.

A naval ship discovered them using a 3-D sonar device, said military spokesman Orri Ronsumbre.

Efforts to recover the flight recorder, which had already been located on Sunday, continued.

The so-called black box can help to clarify the cause of the accident.

Emergency services identified a first fatality.

Police spokesman Rusdi Hartono announced on Monday.

Family members provided DNA samples to help identify the dead.

So far, the parts of a destroyed turbine, numerous debris and 40 containers with human remains have been brought ashore, the national search and rescue agency said.

"Our focus is on recovering the bodies of the victims," ​​said head of the authorities Bagus Puruhito.

Parts of a turbine of the crashed plane were recovered in the sea

Source: Getty Images / Ed Wray

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The plane of the Indonesian company Sriwijaya Air crashed into the sea and shattered on Saturday shortly after taking off from Jakarta.

As early as Sunday, divers discovered debris, personal items and human remains in the water at a depth of 23 meters and brought them to shore.

The 27-year-old passenger plane was en route to Pontianak on the island of Borneo when it disappeared from the radar shortly after take-off.

After that, the fate of the machine was initially uncertain.

On Sunday the emergency services finally received signals and located the flight recorder in the Java Sea.

There was great sadness in Indonesia.

Numerous people expressed their dismay on social networks and expressed their condolences to the relatives.

Many family members had long hoped for a miracle and waited for information in the crisis center at the airport.

There were also seven children and three babies on board.

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The cause of the accident was still unclear.

However, it is the rainy season in Indonesia.

The plane started late due to heavy rainfall.

Data from the Swedish Internet service Flightradar24 showed that the machine lost a lot of height shortly after taking off.

Then she disappeared north of Java.

Indonesia's poor record in aircraft accidents

The plane crash in Indonesia once again highlighted safety in the country's aviation industry.

Indonesia's record of aviation accidents is one of the worst in Asia, with more civil aviation accidents since 1945 than in any other country in the region.

In the past, accidents have been attributed to inadequate pilot training, technical errors or those in air surveillance and traffic control - or poor maintenance of fleets.

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It is too early to fully assess the recent crash.

Experts believe a number of causes are possible: human errors, the condition of the 26-year-old aircraft, bad weather conditions in the capital Jakarta, from where the Boeing took off.

Fischer said they heard an explosion

Fishermen near the crash site said they heard an explosion and then saw wreckage and oil in the water.

Because heavy rains made visibility difficult, the testimony was not extensive.

The airline does not have a long history of major disasters.

However, in 2008 a farmer died when a plane went off the runway.

According to the airline, the aircraft, which was previously in the service of American airlines, was roadworthy.

It had already completed a flight on the day of its disappearance.

Whether the plane actually had no defects is part of an ongoing investigation.

Sriwijaya Air was founded in 2003.

It mainly covers domestic connections in the island state of Indonesia, but also offers international routes to Malaysia, for example.