Finding body parts, debris and life jackets

Locating the two black boxes of the ill-fated Indonesian airliner

Pieces of the Indonesian plane were recovered from the site after a day-long search.

Reuters

Yesterday, Chairman of the National Committee for Transportation Safety in Indonesia, Sorganto Tagahganto, announced that the two black boxes of the ill-fated Boeing 737 plane that crashed off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta with 62 people on board have been located, and human remains and debris from the plane were found, after a day-long search.

"The divers will start looking for the two boxes for the Sriwigaya Air plane," said Sorganto. "I hope it will not take long before they can be recovered."

For his part, the commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces, Hadi Taghagantu, said that a ship belonging to the marine forces "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 other things," according to what the Ministry of Transport quoted him in a statement. .

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 aircraft parts," 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.

And the head of the Search and Rescue Agency in Indonesia said that the authorities detected signals yesterday, which may be from the flight recorder of the Sriwijaya Air plane that 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 debris and human remains in the area where the Sriwigaya Boeing 737-500 plane, which had 62 people on board, disappeared.

Police spokesman Yusri Yunus revealed to the Miro TV channel, saying, "We received two bags this morning, one containing items for passengers, and the other containing body parts," indicating that the police are working on identifying the victims' identities, while it seems unlikely to find survivors.

Pieces of debris were transported to the main port of Jakarta, including the tire and baby pants.

Hundreds of marine and rescue teams, 10 warships, helicopters and divers are participating in the searches 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 ill-fated plane.

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