The plane, flying as Flight 8501, crashed on Dec. 28 less than an hour after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya with 162 people aboard, bound for Singapore. As of Monday, search teams had recovered 48 bodies, 32 of which have been identified.
The cause of the crash remains unclear, although weather has been cited as a probable factor. Officials have said they hope the data recorders will help explain the crash of the Airbus, which lost contact with ground control after requesting permission to increase altitude.
Search ships first picked up pinging believed to be from the black boxes on Thursday. The ships then began triangulating the pinging to narrow down the location of the recorders, Mr. Soelistyo said.
After battling severe currents and poor visibility for two days, divers successfully raised the tail section on Saturday using special lifting balloons and a crane attached to a ship but did not find the black boxes inside.
The safety record of Indonesia’s commercial aviation industry has come under scrutiny after the disaster, one of several airline crashes in the past decade.
In an interview on Sunday, Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, said he was confident that the country would make any needed improvements to the industry.
“This is the moment to totally reform our air transportation,” he said.
The plane, flying as Flight 8501, crashed on Dec. 28 less than an hour after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya with 162 people aboard, bound for Singapore. As of Monday, search teams had recovered 48 bodies, 32 of which have been identified.
The cause of the crash remains unclear, although weather has been cited as a probable factor. Officials have said they hope the data recorders will help explain the crash of the Airbus, which lost contact with ground control after requesting permission to increase altitude.
Search ships first picked up pinging believed to be from the black boxes on Thursday. The ships then began triangulating the pinging to narrow down the location of the recorders, Mr. Soelistyo said.
After battling severe currents and poor visibility for two days, divers successfully raised the tail section on Saturday using special lifting balloons and a crane attached to a ship but did not find the black boxes inside.
The safety record of Indonesia’s commercial aviation industry has come under scrutiny after the disaster, one of several airline crashes in the past decade.
In an interview on Sunday, Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, said he was confident that the country would make any needed improvements to the industry.
“This is the moment to totally reform our air transportation,” he said.
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