Jakarta:
Indonesian authorities mentioned on Thursday the search for victims of a plane crash that killed all 62 folks on board had been halted, but the hunt would continue for the Sriwijaya Air jet’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
“Search operations have been closed, but we will continue to search for the CVR,” mentioned Bagus Puruhito, who heads the country’s search and rescue agency.
He told reporters that the rescue group had collected more than 324 bags of body components and plane components.
Flight SJ 182 crashed into the Java Sea on Jan. 9 4 minutes immediately after take-off from Jakarta.
Divers final week retrieved from the seabed the other so-named black box, the flight information recorder, of the 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 jet.
The Sriwijaya crash was the largest airline disaster in Indonesia considering the fact that October 2018, when 189 folks have been killed onboard a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX that also plunged into the Java Sea quickly immediately after take-off.
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