A team of Indonesian navy divers have retrieved one part of the black box from the ill-fated AirAsia flight that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board.
Head of the search and rescue agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo mentioned, “This morning I had an official report from the national transportation safety committee. At 7:11 we had succeeded in lifting the part of the black box known as the flight data recorder.”
“We are still trying to find the cockpit voice recorder.”
After a two-week search, officials reported that strong ping signals had been detected by three vessels involved in the search.
The signals were coming from the seabed less than one kilometre from where the tail of the plane was found.
The tail of the ill-fated flight was lifted out of the sea with inflatable floating balloons on Saturday.
Flight QZ8501 vanished from radar screens over the northern Java Sea on December 28, en route from Surabaya to Singapore.
More updates will be coming up once more questions about the crash are answered.
