news:The flight data recorder arrived at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, before being taken to Jakarta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investigators are checking the tail section for indications of what went wrong

Speaking in Jakarta, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency Bambang Soelistyo told reporters: "I received information from the National Transport Safety Committee chief that at 07:11 (00:11 GMT), we succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder."
He said the device was found under the wreckage of a wing.
Hours later, other officials said the cockpit voice recorder had also been detected but divers had not yet managed to reach it.
The two recorders, usually housed inside the rear part of the plane, are designed to survive a crash and being submerged in water. They contain underwater locator beacons which emit so-called "pings" for at least 30 days.
Supriyadi, operations co-ordinator for Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said that based on initial analysis of the wreckage, the plane could have "exploded" upon landing on the water.
"The cabin was pressurised and before the pressure of the cabin could be adjusted, it went down - boom. That explosion was heard in the area," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
However an investigator at the National Transportation, Santoso Sayogo, later told Reuters there was "no data to support that kind of theory

  Investigators are checking the tail section for indications of what went wrong

Speaking in Jakarta, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency Bambang Soelistyo told reporters: "I received information from the National Transport Safety Committee chief that at 07:11 (00:11 GMT), we succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder."
He said the device was found under the wreckage of a wing.
Hours later, other officials said the cockpit voice recorder had also been detected but divers had not yet managed to reach it.
The two recorders, usually housed inside the rear part of the plane, are designed to survive a crash and being submerged in water. They contain underwater locator beacons which emit so-called "pings" for at least 30 days.
Supriyadi, operations co-ordinator for Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said that based on initial analysis of the wreckage, the plane could have "exploded" upon landing on the water.
"The cabin was pressurised and before the pressure of the cabin could be adjusted, it went down - boom. That explosion was heard in the area," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
However an investigator at the National Transportation, Santoso Sayogo, later told Reuters there was "no data to support that kind of theory".

Key information Over the weekend, three ships detected pings that were thought to be from the black box's emergency locator transmitter. However, strong currents and high waves prevented the search operations.
The tail section of the Airbus A320-200 was brought to the surface, but the flight recorder was not inside it, as had been hoped.
Then on Monday, weather allowed for divers to retrieve the flight data recorder.
The international search for the fuselage and the remaining missing passengers and crew is continuing in the Java Sea.
Mr Soelistyo said all ships now "will be deployed with the main task of searching for bodies that are still or suspected to still be trapped underwater".

The tail section of the plane was recovered over the weekend but did not have the flight recorders in it