JAKARTA – Signals from the black boxes of an AirAsia jetliner, which crashed in the Java Sea off [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan coast, have been detected, Military Commander General Moeldoko said on Friday.
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“The location was estimated 300 metres from the initial point,” Moeldoko was quoted as saying.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
He was referring to a location where the tail of Airbus A320-200 was found on Wednesday.
Moeldoko was onboard navy ship Banda Aceh used as a base ship to supervise the operation to lift up the tail, which he said, was submerged in the seabed mud.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
Seven divers have been deployed to check the signals and confirm the position of the black boxes, Moeldoko added.
Flight QZ8501 went down on Dec. 28 en route from Indonesia’s second largest city of Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people aboard.
So far, 47 bodies have been recovered in a multinational search operation. (Xinhua/NAN)
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