Black Boxes Reportedly Found In The Disappearance Of AirAsia Flight 8501

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Jakarta, Singapore- Search Officials believe they have found the crucial black boxes of AirAsia jet was found today in the Java Sea stuck under debris from the plane's fuselage. Officials say it will be retrieved on Monday as the breakthrough will hopefully reveal what caused the jet's fatal crash.

  Indonesia's Directorate General of Marine Transport confirmed that the black box of the AirAsia
Flight QZ8501 has been found. The breakthrough comes exactly two weeks after the flight from Surabaya to Singapore went down with 162 on board.

  Coordinator of the Directorate General of Marine Transport Tonny Budiono said navy divers from Indonesia navy ship KN Jadayat found the black box at a depth of 30 to 32 meters. The black box is currently wedged between pieces of wreckage making it difficult for divers to retrieve, and due to time constraints, retrieval will take place tomorrow morning, said Budiono.

   The search crew will attempt to retrieve the black box by moving parts of wreckage to loosen it from where it is currently stuck, and if that fails, the same balloon method used to lift the tail of the plane will be employed, he said. To facilitate recovery efforts, a marker buoy has been installed at the site where the black box is, Budiono said.

  The discovery of the black box occurred after three Indonesian ships detected intense pings amid a growing belief that the devices will soon be recovered. They were located around 3.5 kilometers from where the aircraft's rear was discovered.

  "The two are close to each other, just about 20 meters,"  Indroyono Soesilo, coordinating minister for Maritime Affairs told reporters. "Hopefully, they are the cockpit voice recorder and flight data reporter."

  Officials said earlier Sunday that two separate pings had been detected. Budiono said in a statement that the signals were intense in one area, and that the recorders were believed to be lodged there beneath wreckage. If divers are unable to free it, all of the debris will be lifted.

  Other officials cautioned it was too soon to know whether the sounds were coming from the black boxes, which detached from the tail when the plane plummeted into the sea Dec. 28, killing all 162 on board.










IBN Live

 AirAsia's jet's black box found, to be retrieved on Monday

 2015/01/11

 Press Trust Of India

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/airasia-jets-black-box-found-to-be-retrieved-on-monday/522406-2.html


Achimad, Ibrahim

 Associated Press

 Pings detected as searchers hone in on AirAsia black boxes

 AOL News

 2015/01/11

 http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/11/pings-detected-as-searchers-hone-in-on-airasia-black-boxes/21127961/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D596697
 

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