Indonesian Divers Locate Cockpit Voice Recorder Of Crashed Lion Air Boeing - Reports

Indonesian divers have located the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Lion Air-operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta last October, local media reported on Monday, citing the country's transportation authorities

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th January, 2019) Indonesian divers have located the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Lion Air-operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta last October, local media reported on Monday, citing the country's transportation authorities.

The National Transportation Safety Committee said that the CVR which is one of two flight recorders installed in planes was no longer transmitting signals about the location of the device because its battery was supposed to only last 73 days after the crash, The Jakarta Post newspaper reported.

"It's very good progress. I think the information in the box might make things clear," Indonesian Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan was quoted as saying by the outlet.

Lion Air Flight JT610 lost contact with air traffic control at 6:33 a.m. local time on October 29, 2018, (23:33 GMT on October 28) shortly after departing from the Indonesian capital. Later, information emerged that that Boeing had fallen into the Java Sea, presumably killing all 189 people on board.

In November, divers found the first black box of the plane. Information retrieved from the device later confirmed that the sensors of the plane had been showing incorrect speed and altitude readings.