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               AirAsia 8501 Data Recorder Recovered from Java Sea

   by Steve Herman

   The flight data recorder of AirAsia flight 8501 has been retrieved from
   the Java Sea. Authorities say the cockpit voice recorder from the
   passenger jet that crashed on December 28 has also been located.

   Navy divers on Monday brought to the surface the flight data recorder
   of the Indonesia AirAsia flight, two weeks after it crashed in the Java
   Sea.

   The head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, Henry Bambang
   Soelistyo, said the data and voice recorders that compose the so-called
   black box had become separated.

   Soelistyo explained to reporters in Jakarta that divers of a joint
   search and rescue team found and lifted part of the black box
   containing the flight data recorder. The cockpit voice recorder, he
   added, was not brought to the surface, but its location has been
   identified.

   It is hoped that the information contained on the two recorders will
   help investigators determine why the Airbus A320 plunged into the sea
   less than halfway into its two-hour flight from Surabaya to Singapore.

   All 162 people on board died. So far, fewer than 50 bodies have been
   retrieved. Search officials say they expect more bodies will be found
   in the submerged fuselage of the plane which is in the sea's relatively
   shallow waters.

   Indonesia's transport ministry has suspended AirAsia's license for the
   Surabaya-Singapore route, for which it did not have permission to fly
   on that ill-fated Sunday. But the ministry said this had no bearing on
   the crash of Flight 8501, which is believed to have encountered a
   severe storm.

   Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, said the crash has brought to light
   widespread problems with air travel management in the country, the
   world's fourth largest, which sprawls across an archipelago composed of
   thousands of islands.
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