Indonesia Locates Two Black Boxes of Crashed Plane: Transport Committee

After a day of searching, Indonesia has located two black boxes of the plane which crashed with 62 people onboard

Soldiers and rescue personnel use a tarpaulin tent to carry debris found on the water of Java island where a Sirwijaya passenger jet crashed. (Image: PTI)

Indonesia Plane Crash: Indonesia National Transport Safety Committee chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said the locations of the two black boxes of the crashed Sriwijaya Airplane have been identified on Sunday after nearly a day of searching, as quoted by Reuters. The Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said the boxes can hopefully be retrieved soon.

Human remains pulled from the Indonesian Sriwijaya Air crash site

Earlier during the day, human remains and plane wreckage had been pulled from the crash site of the passenger jet that plunged into the ocean minutes after takeoff on Saturday, with 62 people on board.

The Sriwijaya Air flight 182 -- a Boeing 737-500 -- was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, when it lost contact at 2:40 p.m. local time), 11 nautical miles north of Jakarta's Soekarno--Hatta International Airport.

Four minutes into the flight, and amid heavy rains, the plane dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute before disappearing from the radar, according to the global flight tracking service Flightradar24.

Indonesian Navy divers on Sunday found wreckage from flight SJY 182 after locating a signal from the aircraft's fuselage. Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, said that he is confident that the Navy Rigel Warship has located the plane's fuselage.

As well as debris from the plane, Indonesian police said they have received two body bags, one containing personal effects belonging to victims, and another containing human remains, Jakarta Police spokesperson Yusri Yunusas quoted by CNN.