The Lion Air plane crashed into the sea in October top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up to receive our rundown of the day'sdirect to your inbox When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. The black box is a cockpit voice recorder and is one of two boxes crucial for the investigation. Deputy chief of Indonesia's transport safety committee (KNKT) Haryo Satmiko said: “It’s been found, but we have not received information of the location yet.” The Boeing Co 737 MAX jet crashed into the sea on October 29 killing all 189 people on board. Deputy maritime minister Ridwan Djamaluddin said the National Transportation Safety Committee had informed the ministry about the discovery. He added human remains were also found at the seabed location. The announcement comes just days after Lion Air ended its search for the second black box, forcing Indonesia to take over. The first black box was found in the wreckage in November. Indonesian rescue personnel recover the wreckage of an engine from the Lion Air flight JT 610 The flight recorder revealed there were problems with the air-speed indicator on four of the plane’s previous flights. Indonesia Navy spokesman Agung Nugroho said the recorder was found 8m deep under mud on the sea floor. The flight recorder data helped, but the voices of the pilots and ground control in the second black box could be key to piecing together exactly what happened. The ill-fated flight, whose plane was only two months old, dived into the sea just minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital. READ MORE: Lion Air crash latest: Landing gear and aircraft part FOUND Families of those on board the plane grieve<doc-sep>JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities on Monday said they will immediately begin to download contents of a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea near Jakarta more than two months ago, killing all 189 people on board. The crash was the world’s first of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet and the deadliest of 2018, and the recovery of the aircraft’s second black box from the Java Sea north of Jakarta on Monday may provide an account of the last actions of the doomed jet’s pilots. “We have our own laboratory and personnel to do it,” Haryo Satmiko, deputy chief of the transportation safety committee, told Reuters. Satmiko said it had in the past taken up to three months to download, analyze and transcribe the contents of recorders. Contact with flight JT610 was lost 13 minutes after it took off on Oct. 29 from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. A preliminary report by Indonesia’s transport safety commission focused on airline maintenance and training, as well as the response of a Boeing anti-stall system and a recently replaced sensor, but did not give a cause for the crash. A group of relatives of victims urged the transportation safety committee to reveal “everything that was recorded” and to work independently. Slideshow ( 6 images ) Navy Lieutenant Colonel Agung Nugroho told Reuters a weak signal from the recorder was detected several days ago and it was found buried deep in soft mud on the sea floor in water about 30 meters (98 ft) deep. “We don’t know what damage there is but it has obvious scratches on it,” Nugroho said. Pictures supplied by an official from the transportation agency showed chipped bright orange paint on the CVR memory unit, but no major dents. Nurcahyo Utomo, an investigator at the safety committee, told reporters it should take no more than five days to download the data, but if there was a problem the CVR would be sent to the manufacturer. “We hope it can be done as soon as possible because all the Boeing operators are waiting,” said Utomo, adding that investigators hoped to complete the full report within a year of the crash. With the recovery of the CVR, officials said there was no plan to continue searching for other parts of the wrecked plane, including an angle of attack sensor that was suspected to have been faulty. Slideshow ( 6 images ) The navy’s Nugroho said human remains had been found near the location of the CVR, about 50 meters from where the crashed jet’s other black box, the flight data recorder (FDR), was found three days after the crash. Investigators brought in a navy ship last week after a 10-day, 38 billion rupiah ($2.70 million), effort funded by Lion Air failed to find the recorder. Bureaucratic wrangling and funding problems hampered the initial search. The L3 Technologies Inc CVR was designed to send acoustic pings for 90 days after a crash in water, according to an online brochure from the manufacturer. That would mean that after Jan. 27, investigators could have faced a far bigger problem in finding the CVR buried along with much of the wreckage deep in mud on the sea floor.. Boeing said in a statement on Monday that it was taking “every measure” to fully support this investigation. “As the investigation continues, Boeing is working closely with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board as a technical advisor to support Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee,” the planemaker said in a statement. Since the crash, Lion Air has faced scrutiny over its maintenance and training standards, and relatives of victims have filed at least three lawsuits against Boeing.<doc-sep>The aircraft - a new Boeing 737 Max - broke into many pieces when it hit the water at high speed. The plane should not have been flying on the day it went down as it was not airworthy, Indonesian investigators have said.<doc-sep>
Lion Air crash: Divers search wreckage of plane on seabed Authorities may finally be able to confirm the cause of Indonesian Lion Air flight JT610’s deadly crash. The aircraft lifted off from Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport on October 29 last year, on a short haul journey to nearby Pangkal Pinang airport Depati Amir. After just 13 minutes in the air, the plane - a Boeing 737 MAX 8 - crashed into the Java sea. Every crew member and passenger on the flight - totalling to 189 - died in the crash and there is no official cause for the disaster. Indonesian authorities have now recovered the black box for flight JT610, which will shed light on exactly what happened to the passenger jet. Officials will use the device, also known as a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) to understand what pilots, staff and passengers were doing in the final moments of the flight. This is the second black box from the flight alongside the flight data recorder (FDR). Together, they complete the data required by officials to construct exactly what happened to JT610. READ MORE: Lion Air BREAKTHROUGH discovery Indonesia find Lion Air black box: Cockpit voice recorder to reveal what ACTUALLY happened to flight Haryo Satmiko, deputy chief of the transportation safety committee told Reuters specialist teams would be working on the recordings. He said: "We have our own laboratory and personnel team to do it.” However, the results won’t come in for some time, as extracting information from the boxes could take months. Mr Satmiko said in the past, transcribers had taken up to three months to properly extract the contents of the black box. READ MORE: Investigators form DRAMATIC Lion Air conclusion Wreckage from Lion air flight JT610 So far, authorities have released a preliminary report on the details of the flight touching on certain aspects of the aircraft. Issued by Indonesia’s transport safety commission looked at staff training for the flight and possible technical errors such as the Boeing anti-stall system and recently replaced sensor. Agung Nugroho, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Indonesian Navy, said a weak signal from the recorder was detected some days ago. The device itself was found on the sea floor buried in soft mud about 30 metres below. READ MORE: Lion Air investigators look through aircraft debris Family members from victims of the flight are demanding the entire contents of the box be released