AirAsia plane crash: pings detected in search for black box
Source: The Guardian
Indonesian search and rescue teams have likely detected signals from the black box of AirAsia flight QZ8501, raising hopes that investigators will soon obtain key information on why the plane went down.
The pings were detected on Friday morning, 12 days after the plane went missing over the Java Sea while carrying 162 people from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.
On Wednesday, an unmanned underwater vehicle located the plane’s tail about 30m underwater off the coast of Borneo, upside down and partially embedded in the sea bed. While the black box and flight recorders were installed in the plane’s tail section, officials warned that they may have come undone, suggesting that they may be buried in the mud.
“We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings,” Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, told reporters. “We have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Divers need to confirm. Unfortunately it seems it’s off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position.”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/airasia-plane-crash-pings-detected-in-search-for-black-box
