KNKT Successfully Downloaded Flight Data Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 From FDR

Discovery of the Sriwijaya Air Sj-182 black box plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands (Diah Ayu Wardani / VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) Soerjanto Tjahjono said that the data in the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Flight Data Recorder (FDR) which was found on Wednesday, January 13 had been successfully downloaded. This data is currently being studied by his party.

"There are 330 parameters and all are in good condition. We are currently studying it," Soerjanto said in a written statement to reporters, Friday, January 15.

Before the process of downloading data from FDR, he said, there were several steps that had to be passed, such as cleaning. This process is also carried out twice, using distilled water and salt water.

"We cleaned the memory unit from the remnants of salt that stuck because it was submerged in sea water," he said.

Furthermore, the NTSC is still waiting for the joint team to find the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). Because this part is also important in the process of investigating the causes of the crash of the plane in the waters of the Thousand Islands.

In the same statement, the NTSC also announced that it had received a crash surviveable memory unit (CSMU). This was conveyed by the Head of the NTSC Aviation Accident Investigation Subcommittee, Nurcahyo Utomo.

"CSMU is the part of the black box that is the most impact resistant and can withstand temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius for one hour," he said.

This CSMU is a memory unit from the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) located.

Previously it was reported that the number of passengers currently identified by the DVI Team has reached 12 passengers, two of which are flight crews, namely a steward on behalf of Okky Bisma and a stewardess on behalf of Mia Tresetyani.

In addition, of these dozens of passengers, two of them have been handed over to the family for funerals, namely Okky Bisma and Asy Habul Yamin.

Previously, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route had lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno Hatta Airport on Saturday, January 9, 2020. Furthermore, the authorities provided certainty if the plane crashed in the vicinity of Laki and Pulau Lancang, Thousand Islands.

The total aircraft carried 62 people including 12 crew members and 50 passengers consisting of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.