Voice recordings, flight data… Why did Sriwijawa Air's Boeing 737-500 finish its run in the Java Sea?
The aircraft, which had 62 people on board, disappeared from radar on Saturday shortly after takeoff.
2,500 rescuers and soldiers are hard at work to try to find its black boxes to try to bring to light the causes of the tragedy.
If the research has so far made it possible to locate the signal from the aircraft's black boxes, none of them have been brought to the surface.
Images released by the Indonesian Navy show a seabed strewn with debris, but time is running out, because in this area of the "thousand islands" the current could quickly carry them.
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On land, the authorities are concentrating on the work of identifying victims.
Relief said Sunday evening it had recovered ten bags containing human remains, which were sprayed with disinfectant at the main port of Jakarta before being transferred to a hospital.
Investigators will seek to identify them using DNA samples taken from relatives of the victims.
All of the passengers on this flight were Indonesians.
Ten of them were children.
"A 24-hour operation without a break" this Monday
Sixteen large pieces of the fuselage and ten bags of debris, discovered 23 meters deep, were also brought up.
"Today, we are going to expand the search area […] and collect everything we can recover, debris or victims," Rasman MS, head of the rescue team for this accident, announced on Monday.
“It's going to be a 24 hour operation.
Without a break.
The faster we can find victims, the better.
"
The investigation which begins could take months.
According to some aviation experts, the flight data indicates that the aircraft deviated sharply from its intended course before dropping abruptly about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in less than a minute, before plunging into the Java Sea.
According to them, the torrential rains which had delayed take-off, piloting errors or a technical problem could have been factors of the tragedy.
First fatal accident for the low-cost company
For its part, the low-cost company Sriwijaya Air, which flies to destinations in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, has not given any information on what may have happened in the 26-year-old aircraft.
This is the first fatal accident involving this company since it was founded in 2003.
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In recent years, air transport has experienced several tragedies in recent years in Indonesia, and some airlines from this country were banned in Europe until 2018. In October 2018, 189 people died in the crash. a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air which also crashed in the Java Sea, twelve minutes after taking off from Jakarta.
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In 2014, an AirAsia plane from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore crashed with 262 people on board.
And a year later, a military plane crashed into a residential area in Medan (Sumatra) killing more than 140 in total.
