Indonesian navy divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, a development that should help investigators work out why the Airbus A320 fell from the sky on December 28.
"The flight data recorder has been recovered and we're still looking for the cockpit voice recorder," said Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, at a press conference on Monday morning. He said the recorder had been picked up just after 7am on Monday.
The flight data recorder contains detailed information about the aircraft's operation, while the cockpit voice recorder stores discussions between the pilots and with air traffic control. These devices will be crucial for investigators trying to make sure what happened to the flight, which disappeared from radar amid bad weather midway through a flight from Surabaya, Indonesia's second city, to Singapore.
Search and rescue teams from Indonesia and countries including the US and Singapore have for the past two weeks been scouring the Java Sea for wreckage, bodies and the black boxes. Bad weather and violent seas limited the initial search but improving conditions in the past few days allowed divers to find the aircraft's tail section and now the first black box.
From the 162 passengers and crew on board, the rescue team has recovered 48 bodies, of which 32 have been identified.
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