SAFRF - Latest updates from the Sriwijaya Air crash in Indonesia

Indonesian Navy divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182, which went down in the Java Sea on Saturday. The flight data recorder will provide key clues on what caused the Boeing (BA) 737-500, carrying 62 people, to plunge more than 10,000 feet in less than a minute.Representatives from Boeing and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will also leave for Jakarta this week to help with the investigation, according to Bloomberg. The recorder will be sent to a Jakarta laboratory run by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee ((KNKT)), where specialists will clean and dry it out before downloading the information, in a process that is expected to take two to five days.Details: The Sriwijaya Air jet didn't fly for nearly nine months last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The plane resumed flying with passengers on Dec. 22, a couple of weeks before the

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Latest updates from the Sriwijaya Air crash in Indonesia