AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 Black Box Found As Search For Cockpit Voice Recorder Moves Into 2nd Week

Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia. New reports coming in from the AirAsia crash site in Indonesia say that one of the AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 black boxes or flight recorders have been found. When the tail end of the AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore was found, the search team reported that pings from the black boxes were not coming from the tail section of the plane.

The search team officials said they are looking for the second black box, which is also known as the black box cockpit voice recorder.

About 48 bodies of 162 people on board have been recovered. The rest are believed to be in the fuselage of the plane. The remaining ships in the Java Sea have been ordered to search for bodies of victims on AirAsia Flight QZ 8501.

Flight 8501 was supposed to be a short flight of two hours, but the plane went off the radar screen 43rd min into the flight. One of the strong theories for the downing of the AirAsia Indonesia flight was the ice formation stalling its engines, caused by extreme weather conditions leading to the crash.

Bambang Soelistyo told reporters: "I received information from the National Transport Safety Committee chief that at 07:11 (00:11 GMT), we succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder" reported BBC News.

Soelistyo said that four divers on the search team brought the 1st black box up to surface on Monday morning. Searching for the missing AirAsia plane was a near impossible task for divers due to silt, river runoff and sand getting in the way of diver's vision. There is a strong possibility that victims are entrenched into the seabed sealed inside the plane. Since the bodies are two weeks old, they have begun to decompose, with sixteen bodies left to be identified, reports said

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