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>Thomas Maresca USA TODAY The cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea on Oct. 29 has been recovered, Indonesian officials said Monday, a discovery that should help investigators piece together the details of the doomed flight that killed all 189 people on board. Indonesian navy spokesman Lt. Col. Agung Nugroho told reporters that the “black box” voice recorder of the Boeing 737 was found near the site of the crash at 9:10 a.m. local time, Indonesian newspaper Kompas reported. Coordinating maritime affairs and fisheries minister Luhut Pandjaitan confirmed the finding, the Jakarta Post reported. "It's very good progress. I think the information in the box might make things clear,” Luhut said. The voice recorder was one of the two black boxes used on the flight; the other, a flight data recorder, was recovered days after the crash. A preliminary report based on the flight recorder’s data, issued in November by Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, found that pilots struggled to control the plane as its automatic anti-stall system repeatedly pulled the plane’s nose down. According to the report, the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 first encountered the problem just minutes after takeoff and continued to manually override the automatic control more than two dozen times, with data showing the plane’s erratic flight path. Contact was lost with the plane just 13 minutes after it took off from the capital, Jakarta, en route to the city of Pangkal Pinang. The jet, a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, had experienced similar problems on a flight the night before, but pilots had turned off the automatic safety feature. The aircraft had also recorded problems measuring airspeed and altitude on four flights in the three days prior to the doomed flight, the report noted. Two days prior to its final flight, an “angle of attack” sensor that measures airflow over the plane’s wings was replaced. Boeing has been hit with several lawsuits by family members of the victims of the crash, alleging that the automated safety system was faulty and that the aircraft manufacturer had failed to sufficiently document the system in its operations manual and train pilots on its use. In a statement on the preliminary report, Boeing said it was “deeply saddened by the loss of Lion Air Flight 610” but defended the safety of the Boeing MAX, calling it “as safe as any airplane that has ever flown the skies.” Jakarta-based Lion Air, which was founded in 1999, has had some safety and maintenance issues in the past and was banned from flying into European airspace from 2007 until 2016. The airline had a crash in 2004 that killed 25 people and has had a number of other incidents, including a crash landing in the sea near Bali in which all 108 passengers survived. If the black box discovered on Monday is undamaged, its recordings of cockpit conversations and background noise could provide vital information on what went wrong with the flight. Human remains were also discovered at the seabed site where the black box was recovered, said Ridwan Djamaluddin, a deputy maritime minister, according to The Associated Press.<doc-sep>
The cockpit voice recorder of the Lion Air jet that crashed in the Java Sea in October has been found by navy divers. Ridwan Djamaluddin, a deputy maritime minister, said the National Transportation Safety Committee had informed the ministry about the discovery. He said human remains were also discovered at the seabed location. The two-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, killing all 189 people on board. Image: Debris from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 at a port in northern Jakarta The crash was the world's first of a Boeing 737 MAX jet and the deadliest of 2018, with contact having been lost with the JT610 flight just 13 minutes after it left the airport. It had been bound for the mining town of Pangkal Pinang in the north of the country. The cockpit voice recorder - found broken into two pieces - is one of the two so-called black boxes crucial for the investigation of a plane crash. The other black box, the flight data recorder, was recovered three days after the crash. Image: Navy personnel remove recovered parts of the Lion Air jet Haryo Satmiko, deputy chief of the transportation safety committee, suggested that it could take up to to three months to download, analyse and transcribe the contents of recorders. Investigators - who in November found that the plane had not been fit to fly - brought in a navy ship last week for a fresh search after a 10-day effort funded by Lion Air failed to find the recorder. Boeing did not respond immediately to a request for comment on Monday. In a preliminary report, the Indonesian transport safety commission focused on 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. Image: Personal items recovered from Lion Air flight JT610 Lion Air has faced scrutiny over its maintenance and training standards since the crash, and relatives of victims have filed at least three lawsuits against Boeing. They have also urged the transportation safety committee to reveal "everything that was recorded" and to ensure they work independently to find out what happened. Low-cost carrier Lion Air began operating in 2000, one year after its founding, and now operates 183 routes within Indonesia and surrounding countries including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and China. Between 2007 and 2016, the EU banned the airline from flying to member locations. Lion Air is one of many new carriers in Indonesia, an island nation that relies heavily on air travel but has attracted a reputation for poor regulation.