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Crashed Lion Air jet’s voice recorder found
    2019-01-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE cockpit voice recorder from an Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed in October has been recovered, officials said yesterday, a discovery that could be critical to explaining why a brand new plane fell out of the sky just after take-off.

The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about 13 minutes after departing Jakarta, slamming into the Java Sea moments after pilots had asked to return to the capital and killing all 189 people onboard.

The bright orange voice recorder was discovered early yesterday about 10 meters from a flight data recorder that was located back in November, authorities said.

“It’s broken into two pieces so hopefully it’s still useful” to investigators, Haryo Satmiko, deputy head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC), told reporters.

More human remains were also found near the voice recorder, he added, without giving details.

“This will really help the investigation ... and could give some more answers on the cause” of the crash, said Jakarta-based aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo.

The doomed airliner’s flight data recorder supplied information about its speed, altitude and direction before it plunged into the sea Oct. 29.

“But the data recorder does not show how the flight crew’s decisions were made or discussed in those final moments,” Stephen Wright, an aviation expert at Leeds University, said.

A preliminary crash report from Indonesia’s transport safety agency suggested that the pilots of Flight 610 struggled to control the plane’s anti-stall system just before the accident.

The agency also found that the Lion Air jet should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem before its fatal journey, and it criticized the budget carrier’s poor safety culture.

But it did not pinpoint a definitive cause of the crash and a final report is not likely to come before later this year.

Despite the name, black boxes are usually bright orange with reflective stripes, and all commercial planes are obliged to have them on board.

They’re built to survive at vast depths and in extreme heat, and are fitted with a beacon, which can emit a signal for one month.

Black box data helps explain nearly 90 percent of all crashes, according to aviation experts.

Authorities called off the grim task of identifying victims of the crash in November, with only 125 people named after tests on human remains that filled some 200 body bags. (SD-Agencies)

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