The flight data recorder of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 retrieved Monday was in good condition and was ready to be opened for analysis, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said.

Indonesian military police carry the flight data recorder of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 at Iskandar air base in Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia, Jan. 12, 2015. The flight data recorder of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 retrieved Monday was in good condition and was ready to be opened for analysis, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said. [Photo/Xinhua]

KNKT Chairman Tatang Kurniadi told a press conference in Pangkalan Bun, a town on Borneo island's central Kalimantan province closest to the crash site, that the black box recovered by Indonesian divers Monday morning would be sent immediately to the lab in Jakarta for analysis by a Boeing aircraft.

Tatang was sure that the memory can be read as the recorder had been inundated for only two weeks, adding that the lab had successfully read data from the fight data recorder submerged in water for eight months.

He said his analysis team would need around three days to download the data and months-long to analyze them.

The black box was discovered near the wrecked wing of the Airbus 320-200 at 7:10 a.m. on Monday. However, the cockpit voice recorder has not been retrieved.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as black boxes, are crucial to determining the cause of an air crash.

Flight QZ8501, with 162 people aboard, plummeted into the Java Sea near the Karimata Strait during its flight from Surabaya to Singapore on Dec. 28.

So far, 48 bodies of the victims have been recovered from the sea, with 27 of them having been identified.

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