A joint operation of the Indonesian Navy, the National Authorities, and the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) conduct intensive look for the black box of the crashed Sriwijaya Air airplane in the Java Sea on January 12,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
BY: YUDHA BASKORO
JANUARY 12, 2021
Jakarta. The black box consisting of flight data recorder (FDR) of a Sriwijaya Air plane which crashed four days earlier was recuperated on Tuesday by elite members of the Indonesian Navy.
Indonesian authorities are still working to locate a second black box that contains the cockpit voice recorder of the Boeing 737-500 airplane, which carried 62 individuals during the unfortunate flight en path from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten to the West Kalimantan capital of Pontianak.
” Let’s hope that the process to read and recover information from the FDR– which will take two to 5 days– will go efficiently so we can confirm the cause of this tragedy,” National Transport Safety Committee (KNKT) Chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono said in a declaration.
” Discovering the real reason for a mishap will assist us avoid a reoccurrence in the future, which’s one of the main reasons of the continuous examination by the KNKT,” he included.
The air traffic control service lost contact with the plane four minutes after takeoff on Saturday afternoon.
Soerjanto dismissed theory that the airplane took off mid-air, saying a damaged fan blade still connected on its turbine disc has been found. In addition, the aircraft’s system continued to transfer data as it fell from an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet to as low as 250 feet.
” The harmed fan blade shows that the engine was still working throughout the effect,” he said.
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