Indonesia air crash rescuers find bodies

The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains but no sign of survivors.

Jakarta:Human remains were recovered by Indonesian search and rescue personnel on Monday from the waters off of Java Island where Sriwijaya Air jet crashed on Saturday.

The search for the black boxes of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified on Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea.

The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains but no sign of survivors.

Head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee Soerjanto Tjahjono said on Monday that the crashed Sriwijaya Airplane might have broken apart when hitting waters.

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"The plane was possibly ruptured when it hit the waters. This indicates that the plane remained intact in the air and it did not explode," Tjahjono told Xinhua.

He said most pieces of the debris are in small parts and not scattered far away.

"All pieces of the debris are located in one area only," said Tjahjono.

Authorities have said signals from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were detected between Lancang and Laki islands in the Thousand Island chain just north of Jakarta's coast.

Officials said they have marked a location where the sounds were being emitted from the black boxes, which detached from the tail of the aircraft when it plummeted into the sea.

The cockpit voice recorder holds conversations between pilots, and the data recorder tracks electronic information such as airspeed, altitude and vertical acceleration.

When found, they will be transported to the port and handed to the National Transportation Safety Committee overseeing the crash investigation.

(with Agency inputs)

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