Black box pings from crashed AirAsia plane detected
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The black box, one of two flight recorders from the Rio-Paris Air France flight, AF447, an Airbus 330 which crashed in 2009, is carrying to be displayed for the media before a news conference at the BEA headquarters in Le Bourget, northern Paris, in this file photo taken May 12, 2011.[Photo/Agencies via China Daily] |
Signals from the black boxes of an AirAsia jetliner, which crashed in the Java Sea off Indonesia's Central Kalimantan coast, have been detected, Military Commander General Moeldoko said on Friday.
"The location was estimated 300 meters from the initial point," Moeldoko was quoted as saying by the detik.com news website, referring to a location where the tail of Airbus A320-200 was found on Wednesday.
Moeldoko was onboard navy ship Banda Aceh used as a baseship to supervise the operation to lift up the tail, which he said was submerged in the seabed mud.
Indonesia has a plan to raise the tail of the Airbus A320-200 either with floating balloons or with a crane set in a navy vessel off the Central Kalimantan coast. Meanwhile, navigation ship Jadayat and members of the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) would continue detecting pings that possibly emitted from the plane's block boxes.
So far, 48 bodies of victims have been recovered after two more corpses were found by an Indonesian ship on Friday. Divers were sent to retrieve the bodies that were strapped in their seats. But strong winds and high waves have hampered efforts to reach larger pieces of suspected wreckage detected by sonar on the sea floor.
"Some 41 bodies recovered in the operation have been moved to Surabaya, five were still kept in Pangkalan Bun hospital and two in a geosurvey ship at the moment," Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), said.
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