Indonesian divers on Friday resumed a search for a second black box amid the sunken wreckage of a virtually new aircraft that crashed into the sea off Jakarta this week, killing all one hundred and eighty-nine people on board.
Searchers have found only part of one black box and just one passenger has been identified from partial remains after air traffic control lost contact with the plane 13 minutes after it took off on Monday from the capital.
Head of Indonesia’s transport safety panel said efforts are now focused on retrieving the second of the two black boxes, as the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are known.
“The team have been hearing the ‘ping’ sound from another black box since two days ago,” Soerjanto Tjahjono.
The seafloor is just thirty metres down, but strong currents and nearby energy pipelines have hampered the search for the aircraft operated by budget carrier Lion Air, which was heading for the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang when it crashed.
