11 Jan 2021

Indonesia finds black box signals in Java Sea, near Sriwijaya Air jet crash

From Morning Report, 8:23 am on 11 January 2021

Searchers have located the black boxes of a plane that went down off the coast of Indonesia at the weekend.

There were 62 passengers and crew aboard the 26-year old Boeing 737-500, which was flown by Sriwijaya Air.

The flight disappeared from radar just four minutes after takeoff, plummeting three kilometres in less than half a minute, before crashing into the Java Sea.

No survivors have been found.

The BBC's Callistasia Wijaya spoke to RNZ producer Michael Cropp.