Sriwijaya Air Accident: Indonesia’s black box locator damaged – BBC News

Search teams said they had located the location of the plane’s black boxes and found that they had been combing the water. KNKT said on Tuesday that a device used to find black boxes had “technical problems or equipment damage”. Black boxes – officially known as flight data recorders and cabin voice recorders – store aircraft data and can provide key information in air accident investigations. Authorities added that they were waiting for a new “ping locator” in Singapore to arrive. It’s unclear how the affected locator affects the search, but on Tuesday local TV showed images of divers looking for black boxes. Meanwhile, various debris, body parts, debris and passenger clothing have already been recovered. Please subscribe HERE .

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