Recovered CVR May Reveal Cause of JT610 Crash

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Commander of the Navy’s Western Fleet Rear Adm. Yudo Margono shows Lion Air PK-LQP\'s Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to reporters after it was discovered by divers from the Koarmada 1 Underwater Rescue Service in the waters off Karawang, West Java, on Monday (14/01/2019). The Navy\'s Hydrology Center and the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) had searched for the CVR using the KRI Spica since Tuesday last week.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Authorities have finally recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of Lion Air flight JT610, registration code PK-LQP, which crashed on Oct. 29, 2018 into the Java Sea off the coast of Karawang, West Java, shortly after takeoff from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Data on the CVR could reveal the cause of the plane crash.

A team from the Navy’s Kopaska elite frogman unit and the 1st Fleet underwater diving command has recovered the CVR of Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed on Oct. 29, 2018 into the sea off Karawang, West Java. The CVR was recovered from the sea on Monday (1/14/2019) at 9:18 a.m. The KRI Spica-934 of the Navy’s Pushidrosal (hydrography and oceanography center) was involved in recovering the CVR.