CVR Black Box From Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Is Found, NTSC Will Combine The Aircraft Crash Data With The FDR

Black Box CVR Sriwijaya Air/Special

JAKARTA - The search team commanded by the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) managed to find a black box Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft with a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) type.

The CVR black box is currently being brought to the NTSC office for analysis. Chairman of the NTSC, Soerjanto Tjahjono, said that initially, the black box memory containing the recording of the conversation between the pilot and the co-pilot before the plane crashed would be downloaded first.

"We will bring this CVR to the lab and we will process the reading which will take approximately 3 days to one week", Soerjanto said in a press conference at JICT 2 Pier, North Jakarta, Wednesday, March 31.

After that, the NTSC will transcribe the recorded conversation into writing. Then, the transcribed data will be combined with the flight records generated from the previously found black box flight data recorder (FDR) download.

"We will see, we will make a transcript to be matched with the FDR. What happened in the cockpit. So that we can analyze why the is data from the FDR like this, and what the situation was like in the cockpit", he explained.

Soerjanto said he was grateful for the discovery of the CVR black box which he had been looking for two months ago. Because, he said, if the CVR was not found, the NTSC would find it difficult to determine the cause of the crash.

"Without CVR, in the Sriwijaya SJ-182 case it will be very difficult to determine the cause. In accordance with the message from the President, we open it as transparently as possible and what is the cause so that a similar incident does not occur in the future. That's the most important", he concluded.

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. Since the start of the search until the SAR operation was closed, 59 bodies have been identified by the National Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team.

Then, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 black box with the FDR type was found on January 12, 2021, by the joint SAR team. Finally, last night the CVR black box was found.