AirAsia QZ8501: Divers recover 'black box' flight recorder
Published: January 12, 2015
Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, say officials.
They believe they have also located the cockpit voice recorder, the second part of the so-called black box, but divers have not yet managed to reach it.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared in bad weather on 28 December with 162 people on board.
The tail section of the plane was recovered over the weekend but did not have the flight recorders in it |
The aircraft, which was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, is thought to be deep in the Java Sea.
Dozens of bodies have been recovered but most of the victims are believed to still be inside the fuselage, which has not been found.
(Source: BBC)
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