Indonesia air crash investigator hopes for recovery of cockpit voice recorder


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021

FILE PHOTO: Officers of National Transportation Safety Commission (KNKT) take the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed to the sea, out of the container box, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's air accident investigator is still hoping to recover the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to better understand information obtained from the flight data recorder (FDR), an official said on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Jan. 9 with 62 people on board.

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