Friday, January 9, 2015

AirAsia plane crash: pings detected in search for black box

Indonesian search and rescue teams have likely detected signals from the black box of AirAsia flight QZ8501, raising hopes that investigators will soon obtain key information on why the plane went down. The pings were detected on Friday morning, 12 days after the plane went missing over the Java Sea while carrying 162 people from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.
On Wednesday, an unmanned underwater vehicle located the plane’s tail about 30m underwater off the coast of Borneo, upside down and partially embedded in the sea bed. While the black box and flight recorders were installed in the plane’s tail section, officials warned that they may have come undone, suggesting that they may be buried in the mud. “We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings,” Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, told reporters. “We have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Divers need to confirm. Unfortunately it seems it’s off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position.” Searchers have pulled 46 bodies of the plane’s passenger and crew from the water, as well as a scattering of debris. No survivors have been found. Experts say that the crash was at least partially caused by bad weather. Yet the pilot did not issue a distress call, and the the circumstances of the flight’s final moments remain unclear. Indonesian armed forces commander general Moeldoko told reporters on Thursday that signals from the plane’s black box had been found, but later lost again. Divers searching for the black box on Thursday were thwarted by strong currents and low visibility. Black boxes typically emit signals for about a month after a crash before running out of batteries. Indonesia AirAsia, 49% owned by the Malaysia-based AirAsia budget group, has come under pressure from the authorities in Jakarta since the crash. The transport ministry has suspended the carrier’s Surabaya-Singapore licence, saying it only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday, though the ministry said this had no bearing on the accident.

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