Black Box Containing CVR Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Is Found

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JAKARTA - The black box containing the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in the Kepulauan Seribu some time ago was found.

Information on this discovery will be conveyed by the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi accompanied by the Chairman of the NTSC, Soerjanto Tjahjono, and a number of officials, Wednesday, March 31 at JICT II, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

The crash of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route began with a loss of contact in Kepulauan Seribu shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Saturday, January 9, 2020.

Furthermore, the authorities confirmed that the plane crashed around Laki Island and Lancang Island, Kepulauan Seribu at around 14:40 p.m. local time.

The number of passengers who took part in the flight consisted of 56 aircraft passengers and 6 crew members.

The FDR of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 black box was found on January 12, 2021, by the joint SAR team. At that time, the FDR was immediately taken to the NTSC to download the data. The data that was successfully downloaded includes 370 parameters, during the operation of approximately 27 hours. In it, includes 18 flights, including flights that have crashed.