Hope Springs from Black Box’s Pings
Pings from the underwater locator beacon (UBL) of the recently downed Lion Air JT-610 were believed to have been detected on Wednesday. The pings were strongly believed to have been coming from the aircraft’s flight recorder, known colloquially as the black box.
Divers from the Jalamangkara Detachment (Denjaka), a counterterrorism elite special force of the Indonesian Navy, and Taifib, an elite reconnaissance unit of the Indonesian Marine Corps, prepare diving equipment on Wednesday (31/10/2018) to search for the black boxes based on the location detected by the Baruna Jaya I Research Ship on Karawang waters, Karawang regency, West Java. As of Wednesday evening, search activities had not produced results, but several divers said they had seen turbine machines on the seabed.
Pings from the underwater locator beacon (UBL) of the recently downed Lion Air JT-610 were believed to have been detected by Baruna Jaya I vessel’s ultrasoft baseline transponder on Wednesday (31/10/2018) at around 12:25 p.m. The pings were strongly believed to have been coming from the aircraft’s flight recorder, known colloquially as the black box. Lion Air flight JT-610 crashed on Monday (29/10) into waters off Karawang, West Java, on its way from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang’s Depati Amir Airport in Bangka Belitung Islands.
Retrieving the flight recorder will be an important step in finding out the cause of the crash. Flight recorders generally comprise a flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR).