AirAsia flight QZ8501: Strong signals detected in hunt for black box
Published on Jan 11, 2015 12:31 PM
A helicopter flies over the Crest Onyx ship after it retrieved the tail of AirAsia flight QZ8501 in the Java sea on Jan 10, 2015. The Indonesian authorities said on Sunday that strong signals were emanating from the crucial black box recorders of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board. -- PHOTO: AFP
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AFP) - The Indonesian authorities said on Sunday that strong signals were emanating from the crucial black box recorders of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board.
Military divers were trying to follow the pings to the boxes, believed to be on the floor of the Java Sea about 30m underwater, Mr S. B. Supriyadi, a director with the National Search and Rescue Agency, told AFP.
The hunt came after the mangled tail of the Airbus jet was lifted from the sea on Saturday. "The ping was detected about 1km east of the tail," Mr Supriyadi told AFP at the search headquarters of Panglakun Bun.
The Indonesian meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to crash. But a definitive answer is impossible without the black boxes, which should contain the pilots' final words as well as various flight data.
11 January 2015 Last updated at 06:04 GMT
Officials hope the "black box" flight recorders will be near the object - close to where the tail was found.
The plane, carrying 162 people, was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished from radar in bad weather on 28 December.
'Big possibility'
Supriyadi, operations coordinator for Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said the sonar scan had revealed an object on the sea floor that measured 10m by 4m by 2.5m (33ft by 13ft by 8ft).
"They suspect it is the body of the plane. There is a big possibility that the black box is near the body of the plane," he told Reuters news agency.
A team of divers had been sent to investigate, he added, but poor weather conditions have once again been hampering the search efforts.
"If it is the body of the plane then we will first evacuate the victims. Secondly we will search for the black box," Supriyadi said.
Search teams have also been hearing pings, believed to be from the aircraft's black boxes, near where the tail of the Airbus A320-200 aircraft tail was retrieved from on Saturday.
Rescue workers have been pulling bodies and wreckage from the sea but progress has been slow. Forty-eight bodies have been retrieved so far.
The cause of the crash is unknown but the plane had encountered bad weather and asked for a flight path change before communication was lost.
The "black box" flight data recorders are usually housed inside the rear part of the plane.
They are designed to survive a crash and being submerged in water, and contain underwater locator beacons which emit the so-called "pings" for at least 30 days.
Finding them has been one of the top priorities for search teams as they provide crucial clues from the last moments of the flight before it came down.
Military divers were trying to follow the pings to the boxes, believed to be on the floor of the Java Sea about 30m underwater, Mr S. B. Supriyadi, a director with the National Search and Rescue Agency, told AFP.
The hunt came after the mangled tail of the Airbus jet was lifted from the sea on Saturday. "The ping was detected about 1km east of the tail," Mr Supriyadi told AFP at the search headquarters of Panglakun Bun.
The Indonesian meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to crash. But a definitive answer is impossible without the black boxes, which should contain the pilots' final words as well as various flight data.
11 January 2015 Last updated at 06:04 GMT
AirAsia QZ8501: Search teams 'locate fuselage-like object'
Search teams retrieved the missing plane's tail on
Saturday but the main body is yet to be found
Indonesian search teams believe they
may have located the main fuselage of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501.
An object resembling the plane's body was found in a sonar scan of the search
area in the Java Sea, an official said. Officials hope the "black box" flight recorders will be near the object - close to where the tail was found.
The plane, carrying 162 people, was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished from radar in bad weather on 28 December.
'Big possibility'
Supriyadi, operations coordinator for Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said the sonar scan had revealed an object on the sea floor that measured 10m by 4m by 2.5m (33ft by 13ft by 8ft).
"They suspect it is the body of the plane. There is a big possibility that the black box is near the body of the plane," he told Reuters news agency.
A team of divers had been sent to investigate, he added, but poor weather conditions have once again been hampering the search efforts.
"If it is the body of the plane then we will first evacuate the victims. Secondly we will search for the black box," Supriyadi said.
Search teams have also been hearing pings, believed to be from the aircraft's black boxes, near where the tail of the Airbus A320-200 aircraft tail was retrieved from on Saturday.
BBC News looks at the challenges divers face in the hunt for the black box
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The cause of the crash is unknown but the plane had encountered bad weather and asked for a flight path change before communication was lost.
The "black box" flight data recorders are usually housed inside the rear part of the plane.
They are designed to survive a crash and being submerged in water, and contain underwater locator beacons which emit the so-called "pings" for at least 30 days.
Finding them has been one of the top priorities for search teams as they provide crucial clues from the last moments of the flight before it came down.
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