In pictures, body parts and debris were found, and the two black boxes of the Indonesian plane were located
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The head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Commission, Sorganto Tagahganto, announced today, Sunday, the location of the two black boxes of the ill-fated Boeing 737 that crashed off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, with 62 people on board, after a day-long search.
"The divers will start looking for the two boxes for the Sriwigaya Air plane, and I hope it will not take long for them to be recovered," Sorganto added.
On his part, Indonesian Armed Forces Commander Hadi Taghagantu said that a Navy ship "detected a signal from the plane," explaining that "a team of divers started diving and found parts of the plane and parts bearing identification numbers and others," according to what the Ministry of Transport quoted him in a statement.
The ministry did not clarify whether the signal was issued by the plane's black box.
Hady said that the debris found by the Frogmen included pieces of the plane, life jackets and parts bearing the registration number.
"We received a report from the diving team that the underwater vision was good, which allowed the discovery of a number of parts of the plane," he added.
The Jakarta Police Medical Department said it had obtained bags from search and rescue boats, containing items believed to be from the plane and body parts.
The head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency said that the authorities detected signals today, Sunday, that may have been from the recorder of the Sriwiga Air plane flight, which crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from the capital Jakarta.
"We have detected signals at two points," he told reporters on board a military ship. "This might be the black box."
The agency said that a signal was detected in the Java Sea at a depth of 75 feet.
On Sunday, police said they had found human debris and body parts in the area where a Sriwigaya Boeing 737-500 plane, which had 62 people on board, disappeared.
"We received two bags this morning, one containing items belonging to the passengers and the other containing body parts," police spokesman Yusri Yunus revealed to "Miro" TV channel, indicating that the police are working on identifying the victims.
Body parts, debris and a piece of children's clothing were found off the coast of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, where the plane crashed, while it seems unlikely to find survivors.
Pieces of debris were transported to the main port of Jakarta, including the tire of a plane and a child's pants, according to an AFP correspondent.
Hundreds of marine and rescue teams, 10 warships, helicopters and divers are participating in the search operations at sea.
At at least three locations, divers have installed orange floats and sonar devices are being used to locate the airframe.
The Indonesian Air Force found an oil leak, allegedly from the crashed passenger plane.
"We can see the contrast in colors on the surface of the sea. I think it's an oil spill," Assistant Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Marshal Henry Al-Fandi at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base, said after conducting an aerial surveillance operation on Sunday.
The plane belonging to the Indonesian company Sriwigaya, which connects Jakarta with Pontianak on Borneo island, lost contact with air traffic controllers on Saturday, about 4 minutes after it took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
The plane was carrying fifty passengers, including ten children, and a crew of 12, all Indonesian, according to the authorities.
The authorities have not released any details yet about the possible causes of the accident.
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