By Bernadette Christina Munthe JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) -
By Bernadette Christina Munthe
JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Indonesian divers ready to renew a search on Thursday for the stays of 62 victims and the cockpit voice recorder from a Sriwijaya Air aircraft that plunged into the Java Sea quickly after takeoff final weekend, officers stated.
The search on the crash web site of the downed Boeing 737-500, that was touring from Jakarta to Pontianak, was quickly suspended on Wednesday after unhealthy climate whipped up excessive waves.
“We hope that at this time’s climate can be calm,” stated search and rescue director Rasman MS. “With good climate that may assist our operations, they (the divers) hope to realize optimum ends in discovering the victims and aircraft particles.”
A staff of divers recovered one of many aircraft’s so-called black bins, the flight knowledge recorder (FDR), from the seabed earlier this week with efforts underway on Thursday to retrieve the cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
With the reason for the deadly crash of the 27-year-old aircraft unclear, investigators will rely closely on the black bins to find out what precipitated the jet to lose management minutes after take-off.
Indonesia’s nationwide transportation security committee expects to obtain the FDR knowledge within the coming days, stated the committee’s chief, Soerjanto Tjahjono.
The nation’s transport ministry beforehand confirmed the ill-fated jet had been grounded within the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, however had handed airworthiness necessities in mid-December and resumed service shortly after.
On Wednesday, divers had continued to retrieve aircraft particles, in addition to physique components and the non-public results of the 62 Indonesians on board.
The nationwide police’s catastrophe sufferer identification (DVI) staff has recognized six victims from the flight, together with a crew member and two passengers, in accordance with CNNIndonesia.
The Sriwijaya crash is the second main airline catastrophe in Indonesia after 189 folks had been killed onboard a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max that plunged into the Java Sea minutes after take-off in 2018.
GRAPHIC: Catastrophe after take-offhttps://tmsnrt.rs/3nFhUHm
Map exhibiting flight path of Indonesia planehttps://tmsnrt.rs/2LEoXCs
(Writing by Kate Lamb Enhancing by Ed Davies and Michael Perry)
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