Indonesia Will Lift Tail of Crashed AirAsia Jet While Divers Hunt for Black Box
The black-box flight recorder from theAirAsia Bhd. (AIRA) jet that crashed into the Java Sea was not in the tail section recovered from the water today.
“The signal from the suspected pinger is located around 1 kilometer southeast from the spot where we located the tail section,” S.B. Supriyadi, operations director at the National Search and Rescue Agency, told a press conference at Iskandar Air Force Base, Pangkalan Bun, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southeast of Singapore, today. “We will try to get a correct fix of the coordinate and send divers afterwards.”
Three days ago authorities found the tail, which houses the cockpit-voice recorder and the flight-data recorder, together known as the black box.
The Indonesian navy successfully lifted the tail section of the crashed jetliner today using a float bag and the parts are now being transported to Kumai Bay near Pangkalan Bun.
“We will transport it to a place where we can examine it,” First Admiral Manahan Simorangkir, a Navy spokesman, said by phone. The tail is being taken by ship to Kumai Bay and is expected to arrive at 10 p.m. local time, he said.
A ping that may be from a black box was detected 300 meters away from the tail, Indonesian news website Detik reported Jan. 9, citing Moeldoko. Supriyadi did not elaborate why a ping now appears to originate from a farther location
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“The signal from the suspected pinger is located around 1 kilometer southeast from the spot where we located the tail section,” S.B. Supriyadi, operations director at the National Search and Rescue Agency, told a press conference at Iskandar Air Force Base, Pangkalan Bun, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southeast of Singapore, today. “We will try to get a correct fix of the coordinate and send divers afterwards.”
Three days ago authorities found the tail, which houses the cockpit-voice recorder and the flight-data recorder, together known as the black box.
The Indonesian navy successfully lifted the tail section of the crashed jetliner today using a float bag and the parts are now being transported to Kumai Bay near Pangkalan Bun.
“We will transport it to a place where we can examine it,” First Admiral Manahan Simorangkir, a Navy spokesman, said by phone. The tail is being taken by ship to Kumai Bay and is expected to arrive at 10 p.m. local time, he said.
A ping that may be from a black box was detected 300 meters away from the tail, Indonesian news website Detik reported Jan. 9, citing Moeldoko. Supriyadi did not elaborate why a ping now appears to originate from a farther location
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