Cockpit voice recorder of Indonesia's crashed Sriwijaya Air plane downloaded successfully

The Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea on January 9 after taking off from Jakarta on a domestic flight with two pilots, four cabin crew members, and 56 passengers.

Jakarta:The National Transportation Safety Committee on Tuesday downloaded Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed into the Java Sea on January 9 this year.

The downloading will reveal the cause of the deaths of 62 people aboard the crashed aircraft, the committee's chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said, adding that a two-hour conversation was recorded including seconds before the plane crashed, reported Xinhua.

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"We managed to download all four channels from the CVR, but channel 4 was disrupted," said Tjahjono.

However, the existing recordings have added important data for the investigation, whose results will be presented in the final report, he said, reported Xinhua.

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The Boeing 737-500 Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 disappeared from radar screens after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province at around 2:30 pm local time, 30 minutes after the scheduled time because of heavy rains.

The Flight Data Recorder was retrieved three days after the crash.

ANI

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