Indonesia Sriwijaya air crash search suspended due to bad weather


Divers found the first black box - the flight data recorder - by shifting debris on the seabed piece by piece. - Reuters

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): The search for one of the black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea last Saturday (Jan 9) has been suspended due to bad weather, Indonesian officials said.

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 plunged into the sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Jakarta at 2.36pm.

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