Located the two black boxes of the crashed plane in Indonesia

The teams looking for the Indonesian plane that crashed with 62 people on board on Saturday in waters near Jakarta have located the two black boxes of the plane, according to Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of security for Transport, according to AFP.

A finding that may be key to clarifying the causes of the accident.

So far, some remains of bodies and what is believed to be fragments of the device have also been found.

"I am optimistic, I think we will find (the plane) soon," declared a military spokesman, Henri Alfiandi, before finding them.

The Boeing 737-500 of the Indonesian airline Sriwijaya Air, 26 years old but in good condition according to the company, left on Saturday shortly before 2.30 p.m. local time (08.30 Spanish peninsular time) from Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, to cover a 90-minute journey to the city of Pontianak, on the island of Borneo.

He was half an hour late due to heavy rains.

Just minutes after takeoff, the control tower lost contact: the plane collapsed into the sea, falling more than 3,300 meters in less than a minute, according to the Flightradar flight tracking service and fishermen in the area confirmed. to the Indonesian service of the BBC.

A dozen boats are taking part in the rescue tasks, as well as helicopters and teams of divers.

"This morning we received two bags, one with the passengers' belongings and the other with human body parts," which the investigators are now working to identify, according to the spokesman for the Jakarta Police, Yusri Yunus, on the television network. local Metro TV.

A first aid post has been established in the main port of Jakarta.

Rescue teams and some fishing boats have also located what appear to be fragments from the plane, including part of a possible emergency ramp, although the fuselage has not been found so far.

The search is focused on waters around the resort islands Laki and Lancang, in the vicinity of Jakarta, where the aircraft is believed to have collided with the sea.

In that area, the maximum depth is between 20 and 23 meters.

One of the divers participating in the rescue operation, interviewed by the Kompas TV television channel, has indicated that the underwater teams carry metal detectors and a detector to locate the signals from the black boxes.

In a statement, Boeing has indicated that it is in contact with the client airline.

“We are prepared to help you in these difficult times.

Our thoughts are with the crew, the passengers and their families ”, he added.

The company that owns the aircraft, Sriwijaya, founded in 2003, mainly covers internal flights in Indonesia.

So far there have been no major incidents.

The Indonesian airline industry - vital in a country made up of more than 17,000 islands - has a poor history of accidents, after years of rapid growth of low-cost airlines and non-compliance with safety and maintenance regulations.

In 2007, the European Union banned all Indonesian companies from flying into its territory, a veto that was finally lifted in 2018.

The last plane crash occurred in 2018, when a Lion Air company Boeing 737 Max crashed in the Java Sea with 189 people on board after one of its systems failed.

The same failure in a flight of the Ethiopian Airlines company months later caused that the flights of this new model of airplane were prohibited for almost two years.

In 2014, an AirAsia company plane covering the route between Surabaya and Singapore crashed with 162 passengers on board, in an accident motivated by human error.