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AirAsia flight QZ8501: Divers check on pings detected; black box recorders may no longer be in tail of plane

PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA - Search and rescue teams hunting for the wreckage of the missing Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet have detected pings in their efforts to find the black box recorders but it appeared that they were no longer in the tail of the plane, officials said. “(Indonesian vessel) KN Jadayat received pings estimated to be 300m away" from the location where the tail and other parts of the plane were first found, armed forces chief General Moeldoko said on Friday. He had mobilised seven divers to confirm the signals, detik news website reported. Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, also told Reuters: “We have our fingers crossed it is the black box.... unfortunately it seems it’s off from the tail.” - 

AirAsia QZ8501: 'Pings' detected in plane search

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The BBC's Alice Budisatrijo says that the divers are trying to locate the black Box.

"Pings" have been detected in the Java Sea which could have come from the "black box" flight recorders of AirAsia flight QZ8501, officials say.

The commander of the Indonesian armed forces, Gen Moeldoko, told the BBC divers had been sent to investigate.

The pings were heard near where the plane's tail was found. Officials say the black box could have been separated from the rear part of the plane.

QZ8501 disappeared from radar on 28 December with 162 people on board.

No survivors have been found from the Airbus A320-200, which was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore.

The Indonesian military has released this underwater footage of the AirAsia plane

"We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings," said Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee.

"We have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Divers need to confirm. Unfortunately it seems it's off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position."

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.

An attempt to pull the tail out of the Java Sea was unsuccessful on Thursday because of strong currents

The cause of the crash is unknown but the plane encountered bad weather and asked for a flight path change before communication was lost.

'Broken condition'
The BBC's Alice Budisatrijo, who is on board an Indonesian warship with Gen Moeldoko, says a crane has been deployed to pull the tail out of the water. An attempt yesterday was hampered by strong currents and low visibility.

The rear part of the plane was spotted on Wednesday by an unmanned underwater vehicle at a depth of about 30 metres .

Authorities said it was upside down and partially buried about 30 km (20 miles) from the point of last contact with the plane, off the coast of Borneo.

Gen Moeldoko said on Friday the tail appeared to be in broken condition.

Authorities have been pulling bodies and wreckage from the sea but progress has been slow due to high waves and stormy weather.

Forty-six bodies have been retrieved so far. Search teams believe most of the remains may still be inside the fuselage of the plane which has yet to be found.