Divers have found both of the black boxes from the ill-fated AirAsia flight that crashed more than two weeks ago into the Java Sea and have brought one of them to the surface, according to an Indonesia official. Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told reporters the flight data recorder was brought to the surface by four divers early Monday morning.
Divers found the second black box, the cockpit voice recorder, just hours after the retrieval of the flight data recorder was announced, Suryadi Bambang Supriyadi, operation coordinator at the national search and rescue agency, said.
The recorders are expected to be taken to the capital, Jakarta, for analysis and it could take up to a month to get a complete reading of the data. Officials did not provide details of the condition of the black boxes.
The crew, however, is still searching for the cockpit voice recorder. The AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared in bad weather on 28 December with 162 people on board.
