Indonesian authorities have downloaded data from recorders of the 'black box' Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea last week, authorities said.
"Update from the KNKT black box lab that the FDR has been successfully downloaded," said Head of the NTSC Flight Accident Sub Committee Nurcahyo Utomo, during a press conference at the NTSC office, Jakarta on Sunday (4/11).
The latest data recorded is from October 29 at 6.31 Western Indonesian Time, he added.
Utomo said investigators - including those from the US, Singapore and Australia - had managed to obtain 69 hours of data from 19 flights carried out by the Boeing 737 aircraft, including JT610 flights which crashed into waters off the coast of Karawang, West Java.
Nurcahyo hopes that data from other black box sections, namely the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), can be found to complete the investigation of the crash of the Lion Air plane carrying 189 on board including pilots and cabin crew.
"Investigation in principle utilises existing information, we have FDR and make sure the data is correct and this is helpful for us. But there are two black boxes which have different contents, there are two different infos, if both of them were to be found then they would compliment each other," he concluded.
He said strong signals from the second black box were detected on Saturday but divers can not find them, possibly because they were buried in mud.
The search operation has claimed live.
A potential SAR diver from the Indonesia Diving Rescue Team (IDRT), Syahrul Anto (48), died during a dive operation at the search site on Friday (11/2).
Meanwhile the National Search and Rescue Agency Basarnas handed over as many as 138 body bags found from the search area to the National Police's DVI (Disaster Victim Identification).
Head of Basarnas Muhammad Syaugi told a press conference on Sunday that the agency has extended the search operation by three days as divers continue to search for more remains and the plane's main fuselage.
So far, the operation has only managed to collect parts broken off from the aircraft's main body, including the front and back tyres and two turbines.
