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<\/p>\nIndonesia has deployed a remotely operated underwater vehicle to help divers search for the remains of victims and recover the flight recorders from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea three days ago soon after takeoff.<\/p>\n
The Boeing 737-500 plane with 62 people on board plunged into the Java Sea Saturday afternoon, four minutes after taking off from Jakarta\u2019s main airport.<\/p>\n
Indonesian police made the first identification of a victim from the crash on Monday. Flight attendant Okky Bisma was identified by his fingerprints, said a police official.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy super kind husband… Heaven is your place… Until we meet again darling,\u201d Okky\u2019s wife, who is also a flight attendant, wrote on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n
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The Boeing 737-500 jet was headed on a domestic flight to Pontianak on Borneo island, about 740 km (460 miles) from Jakarta, before it disappeared from radar screens.<\/p>\n
It was the second major air crash in Indonesia since 189 passengers and crew were killed in 2018 when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX also plunged into the Java Sea soon after taking off. The jet that crashed on Saturday is a largely different design.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we are focusing on finding the victims,\u201d Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for search and rescue agency Basarnas, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Divers have narrowed down an area where they believe the flight recorders, known as black boxes, are believed to be but search efforts have been hindered by debris, officials said.<\/p>\n
A remotely operated underwater vehicle has been deployed to help scour the seabed, while navy vessels with sonar search from the surface.<\/p>\n
Once the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are found, Indonesia\u2019s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) expects to be able to read the information in three days.<\/p>\n
With few immediate clues on what caused a catastrophic loss of control after take-off, investigators will rely heavily on the flight recorders to determine what went wrong.<\/p>\n
The Sriwijaya Air plane was nearly 27 years old, much older than Boeing\u2019s problem-plagued 737 MAX model. Older 737 models are widely flown and do not have the stall-prevention system implicated in the MAX safety crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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