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  • Divers retrieve 'black box' data recorder from AirAsia wreck

    01/11/2015 9:28:05 PM PST · by PROCON · 14 replies
    reuters ^ | Jan. 11, 2015 | Cindy Silviana and Kanupriya Kapoor
    (Reuters) - A team of Indonesian navy divers on Monday retrieved one of the two black boxes from an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official said. Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. "At 7:11, we succeeded in lifting the part of the black box known as the flight data recorder," Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, the head of the National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters at a news...