JAKARTA – The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed into the Java Sea earlier this year on January 9 has been downloaded, reported Xinhua quoting the National Transportation Safety Committee.
It will reveal the cause of death of the 62 people aboard the ill-fated aircraft, the committee's chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said today, adding that a two-hour conversation was recorded, including seconds before the plane crashed.
"We managed to download all four channels from the CVR, but channel 4 was disrupted," said Tjahjono.
However, existing recordings have added important data for the investigation, whose results will be presented in the final report, he said.
The Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea after taking off from Jakarta on a domestic flight with two pilots, four cabin crew members and 56 passengers.
The Boeing 737-500 Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 disappeared from radar screens after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province about 2.30pm, 30 minutes after schedule due to heavy rain.
The flight data recorder was retrieved three days after the crash. – Bernama, April 13, 2021
