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Sriwijaya Air crash: Plane passed inspection last month The Sriwijaya Air plane which crashed into the sea on Saturday had passed an airworthiness inspection last month, officials have said. Flight SJ182, which was grounded between March and December last year, resumed commercial flights on 22 Dec. Preliminary findings also showed the aircraft was still functioning and intact before it crashed. The plane had 62 people on board when it plunged into the Java Sea. The cause of the crash remains unknown. On Monday, Indonesian police identified its first victim - Okky Bisma, a 29-year-old flight attendant on the plane. Indonesia's Transport Ministry on Tuesday said the Boeing 737 had been grounded during the pandemic, and passed an inspection on 14 December. It made its first flight five days later with no passengers, then resumed commercial flights shortly after that. Separately, the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said that preliminary findings showed the aircraft reached the height of 10,900ft (3.3km) at 14:36 local time on Saturday (07:36 GMT), then made a steep drop to 250ft at 14:40, before it stopped transmitting data. KNKT head Soerjanto Tjahjono added that the plane's turbine disc with a damaged fan blade had been found - ruling out the theory that the plane exploded mid-air. "The damaged fan blade indicates that the machine was still functioning when it crashed. This [is] also in line with the belief that the plane's system was still functioning when it reached 250ft," said Mr Soerjanto in a written statement to reporters. What progress has been made so far? Search teams say they have located the position of the aircraft's black boxes and have been combing the waters to find it. But the KNKT on Tuesday said that a device used to locate black boxes had experienced "technical problems or equipment damage". Black boxes - officially known as the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder - store data about planes and can provide vital information in air accident investigations. Authorities added that they were waiting for a new "ping locator" to arrive from Singapore. It is unclear how the damaged locator affects the search, but local television on Tuesday showed footage of divers still looking for the black boxes. Meanwhile several pieces of debris, body parts, wreckage and passengers' clothing have already been recovered. "There is so much debris down there and we have only lifted a few pieces. Hopefully, as we take out more [the recorders] can be found," Navy chief of staff Yudo Margono told reporters. According to news wire AFP, there were some 2,600 personnel involved in the search operation yesterday, along with more than 50 ships and 13 aircraft. Investigators are already analysing items which they believe to be a wheel and part of the plane's fuselage. A turbine from one of its engines is also among the debris that has been recovered. Transport safety officials say they are currently in the second stage of a five-stage investigation process. This stage consists of compiling and collecting data and could take up to a year to wrap up. What happened to the aircraft? The Sriwijaya Air passenger plane departed from Jakarta's main airport at 14:36 local time (07:36 GMT) on Saturday. Minutes later, at 14:40, the last contact with the Boeing 737 plane was recorded, according to the transport ministry. The usual flight time to Pontianak, in West Kalimantan province in the west of the island of Borneo, is 90 minutes. There were thought to be 50 passengers - including seven children and three babies - and 12 crew on board, though the plane has a capacity of 130. Everyone on board was Indonesian, officials say. The plane is thought to have dropped more than 3,000m (10,000ft) in less than a minute, according to flight tracking website Flightradar24.com. Witnesses said they had seen and heard at least one explosion. Sriwijaya Air, founded in 2003, is a local budget airline which flies to Indonesian and other South-east Asian destinations. The missing aircraft is not a 737 Max, the Boeing model that was grounded from March 2019 until last December following two deadly crashes. https://www.yahoo.com/news/sriwijaya-air-crash-indonesias-black-042059958.html

"Black box" from Indonesian jet that went down with 62 on board recovered from ocean floor Jakarta, Indonesia — Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor have recovered one of the "black box" data recorders from the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board. The recovery of the flight data recorder is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on Saturday. TV stations on Tuesday showed divers on an inflatable vessel with a large white container containing the data recorder.  Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi confirmed in a news conference on Tuesday that the device recovered was the flight data recorder. Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said at the same event that he was highly confident the the other black box, the cockpit voice recorder, would be found soon, but there was no indication that divers had pinpointed it yet.   The flight data recorder was to be handed over to the National Transportation Safety Committee, which is overseeing the crash investigation. A navy ship earlier picked up intense pings being emitted from both of the boxes, which officials said were buried in the seabed under tons of sharp objects in the wreckage. Videos released Monday and Tuesday by Indonesia's national search and rescue agency and the navy showed divers peering through murky water, inspecting large pieces of debris in mud on the seafloor and searching for the black boxes. Navy Chief Admiral Yudo Margono said earlier that removing large obstacles was slowing efforts to reach the devices. A remote-operated vehicle was sent to the black box location, and Margono said at least 160 divers were deployed to help in the search for the black boxes.   The devices detached from the tail of the aircraft when it crashed, and the search for them was concentrated between Lancang and Laki islands in the Thousand Island chain just north of Jakarta.   More than 3,600 rescue personnel, 13 helicopters, 54 large ships and 20 small boats are searching the area and have already found parts of the plane and human remains in the water at a depth of about 75 feet. The searchers have sent at least 74 body bags containing human remains to police identification experts who on Monday said they had identified their first victim, 29-year-old flight attendant Okky Bisma. His wife, Aldha Refa, who is also a flight attendant for Sriwijaya Air, shared her grief in a series of posts on social media.   "My husband is a loving, devout and super kind man," she wrote on Instagram. "Heaven is your place, dear ... be peaceful there."   Anguished family members have been providing samples for DNA tests and police say results are expected in 4-8 days.   National Police spokesman Rusdi Hartono said about 53 samples for DNA testing have been collected but more are still needed, especially from parents and children of victims.   Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said the United States' National Transportation Safety Board would join in investigating the crash.   Indonesian NTSC chairman, Soerjanto Tjahjono, ruled out a possible midair breakup after seeing the condition of the wreckage found by searchers. He said the jet was intact until it struck the water, concentrating the debris field, rather than spreading it out over a large area as would be seen with a midair event. The disaster has reignited concerns about safety in Indonesia's aviation industry, which grew fast after the economy was opened following the fall of dictator Suharto in the late 1990s. The United States had banned Indonesian carriers from operating in the country in 2007, lifting the action in 2016, citing improvements in compliance with international aviation standards. The European Union lifted a similar ban in 2018.    Sriwijaya Air has had only minor safety incidents in the past, though a farmer was killed in 2008 when a plane went off the runway while landing due to a hydraulic issue.   In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet operated by Lion Air crashed, killing 189 people. An automated flight-control system played a role in that crash, but the Sriwijaya Air jet did not have that system on board. Indonesian Air Safety In Spotlight Again After Crash As dive teams continue to comb through the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182, Saturday’s crash of one of the airline’s Boeing 737-500s into the Java Sea has placed Indonesia’s safety aviation record back into the spotlight. According to the Aviation Safety Network’s database, the country has experienced 104 commercial airline accidents with over 1,300 fatalities since 1945 and at least one hull loss every year from 2010 to 2019. In 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lowered Indonesia’s safety evaluation from Category 1 to Category 2; eight years later American authorities reinstated its Category 1 rating, effectively allowing Indonesian carriers to launch service to the United States and codeshare with U.S. airlines. EASA placed a similar ban on Indonesian carriers from 2007 to 2018. Flight SJ182 is Indonesia’s first major commercial aircraft accident since 2018, when a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max carrying 189 people crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta on its way to Pangkal Pinang on the Indonesian island of Bangka. Indonesian investigators determined that design flaws in the Boeing 737 Max combined with insufficient oversight by U.S. regulators, failures in crew resource management (CRM), and maintenance lapses all contributed to the October 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610. Other notable accidents include Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 in 2014, Trigana Air Flight 267, Aviastar Flight 7503, and a C-130 Hercules military flight carrying civilian passengers in 2015. Saturday’s crash marks the fifth aircraft accident and the fifth hull loss for Sriwijaya Air. In 2008, a Boeing 737-200 overran the runway at Sultan Thaha Airport in Jambi and crashed into a house, leaving one person dead. The airline suffered three additional runway excursions in 2011, 2012, and 2017 but with no fatalities. Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, through its subsidiary Citilink, gained operational and financial control of Sriwijaya and its sister carrier Nam Air in 2018 in an attempt to return the airline to profitability following a steep loss in 2017. At the time of the agreement, Sriwijaya allegedly owed more than $175 million to various companies that included state-owned oil and natural gas corporation Pertamina, Bank Negara Indonesia, and airport operators Angkasa Pura I and Angkasa Pura II. The tie-up gave Garuda and Sriwijaya about 45 percent of the domestic market; the Lion Air Group held the rest. In 2019, Sriwijaya Air and regional subsidiary Nam Air faced fresh calls of concern over air safety, security, and operational standards after severing their partnership with Garuda/Citilink. The two sides later reconciled with the aim of restarting its five-year operational cooperation agreement.