The causes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing crash in January with 62 people on board may be able to be clarified.
After several months, the second black box that recorded conversations between the pilots and the control tower was found off the coast of Indonesia.
On January 9, minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 737-500 plunged some 3,000 meters in less than a minute before disappearing into the Java Sea.
The crew had not issued a warning or reported any technical problem before the accident.
According to the first elements, the device was probably intact when it plunged into the water.
The latest data on # SJ182, now including processed granular ADS-B data.
https://t.co/x3nigpk93Y pic.twitter.com/dZyWw7gYqq
- Flightradar24 (@ flightradar24) January 9, 2021
Fishermen near the site, cited by CNN Indonesia and other local media, said they heard at least one explosion at the time of the crash, which authorities have yet to confirm.
In a preliminary report from the Indonesian Transport Security Agency, the preferred scenario would be an “anomaly” of the autothrottles which manage the thrust of the device which would have been detected.
The first black box, containing data from on-board devices, was found shortly after the accident.
But divers continued to search for the second black box, which had lost its beacon on the seabed off Jakarta.
Indonesian divers have found the Boeing 737-500 wreckage at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in Java Sea # SJ182 https://t.co/gjxIxEX22N pic.twitter.com/UDnz0a1k38
- AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) January 10, 2021
Fifty passengers, including ten children, six crew members flying as passengers and were on board.
The plane was expected at Pontianak.
The 26-year-old would normally take 90 minutes to complete the flight from Jakarta to Pontianak.
This accident is the first fatal involving the Indonesian regional company Sriwijaya Air since its inception in 2013.
