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| Indonesian soldiers display the cockpit voice recorder of AirAsia QZ8501 on Tuesday. |
Divers recovered the second of two black boxes from AirAsia AIRASIA, +4.20% Flight 8501 on Tuesday, clearing the path for an investigation into the crash to begin in earnest.
Officials picked up the recorder by helicopter from a ship where divers had put it after retrieving it, and brought it to Pangkalan Bun, where they showed it to the media before loading it onto a plane for Jakarta.
Santoso Sayogo, an investigator from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, talks to the WSJ's Deborah Kan about what the flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorder can tell us about what went wrong on AirAsia Flight 8501.
The recorder was sighted in 30 meters of water Monday, not far from where searchers recovered the first black box. Santoso Sayogo, an air-crash investigator with Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said “hopefully” it would arrive at investigators’ offices in Jakarta Tuesday night. The two black boxes were found about 10 meters apart, he added.
The first black box was recovered Monday after an intensive search of the Java Sea and flown to Jakarta the same day. Investigators say the two data recorders offer the best chance of learning why the aircraft crashed.
The plane crashed Dec. 28 en route from Surabaya to Singapore with 162 passengers and crew aboard.
Source: MarketWatch
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