"I received information from the National Transport Safety Committee chief that at 07:11 am (local time), we have managed to get part of black box or the flight data recorder (FDR)," Bambang Soelistyo, the chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency Basarnas, told reporters."What we have found and carried is the FDR" and we confirmed this as the object has a tag number and serial –PN-2100-4043-02 and serial number SN-000556583, he said.
The flight data recorder was found under the debris of the plane's wing. It was loaded onto a ship and will now be transported to investigators in Jakarta.
Meanwhile, the cockpit voice recorder has also been located 20m from the flight data recorder, said Search and Rescue (SAR) Director of Operations Supriyadi.
The authorities have cordoned off the black box searcharea from passing ships, and have applied radio silence so that they can hear the signal.
The focus would be to retrieve the cockpit recorder, said the officials.
The black box consists of two pieces of equipment, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. These recorders are important because they should contain the pilots' final words and possibly various flight data.
Stored in a plane's tail, the recorders are designed to begin sending off distinct, high-pitched signals as soon as they come in contact with water. The batteries powering the black boxes are certified to be working for 30 days.
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