Divers retrieve second AirAsia black box

Search and recovery teams are now turning their focus to retrieving bodies from the AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea, after both the data and the cockpit voice recorders were recovered. VPC

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00:07 official confirmed brought the data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder
00:11 have been recovered from the doomed air Asia flight. Those devices
00:15 along with the other pieces of wreckage pulled from the Java
00:18 C a being pored over analyzed for what caused the plane
00:21 to crash. Initial findings suggest that jet may have exploded on
00:25 impact with the water after plummeting more than 30000 feet. Now
00:29 the focus of the search terms to retrieving the passenger jets
00:32 says this says. As an SUV continues until. As much as
00:37 we can only about a third of the bombings of the
00:40 162. On board have been brought back. It's also important for
00:44 investigators to understand the condition of each of the victims is
00:47 their recovered because that could shed light on. How much impact
00:51 forces was sustained by the aircraft in each of the victims
00:55 of family members went into it and upon their loved ones
00:58 it's about closure. I'm probably there's no land until we see
01:02 them no matter what condition therein. As long as they have
01:06 phones that's what I want.

Indonesian officers move the flight data recorder from AirAsia Flight 8501 into a protective case after it was retrieved from the Java Sea on Monday.(Photo: Adek Berry, AFP/Getty Images)

A day after recovering the data recorder, divers Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice black box from the AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea two weeks ago with 162 people aboard.

The cockpit recorder was aboard an Indonesian navy vessel headed for Jakarta, where both devices will be analyzed, said Tonny Budiono, sea navigation director at the Transportation Ministry.

"Thank God," Budiono said. "This is good news for investigators to reveal the cause of the plane crash."

Divers found the cockpit voice recorder, which holds two hours of conversations between the pilot, co-pilot, crew and air traffic control, just hours after the retrieval of the flight data recorder from under a wing Monday, said Suryadi Supriyadi, operation coordinator at the national search and rescue agency. The voice recorder was wedged under heavy pieces of wreckage nearby.

Supriyadi said that initial findings suggest the jet may have exploded on impact with the water after plummeting more than 30,000 feet.

An Indonesian official said divers found both black boxes from AirAsia flight 8501 early Monday. The boxes could provide answers as to why the plane crashed into the Java Sea two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board. VPC

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00:03 Riot. It. And he called. The divers have found both
00:08 black boxes from air Asia flight 8501. This comes a day
00:12 after the plane's tail as a recovered and brought back to
00:15 land. An Indonesian officials said divers brought up flight data recorder
00:19 to the surface early Monday morning. And were working to free
00:23 their cockpit voice recorder which he's had to be wedged under
00:26 heavy pieces of wreckage. Things from the black boxes were discovered
00:30 about a hundred feet below the surface of the jobless seat.
00:33 Officials hope they will provide clues as to why the plane
00:36 plunged into the sea on December 28. Indonesian weather service officials
00:41 have tentatively blamed storms for the crash. 162. Passengers and crew
00:47 were on board. Some 48 bodies have been recovered so far.

The recovery of the black boxes is key to determining what caused the Dec. 28 crash of the Airbus A320 less than an hour into its scheduled two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Authorities have said it could take weeks to download all the information the boxes provide.

"There's like 200-plus parameters they record," said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board member. "It's going to provide us an ocean of material."

Indonesian weather service officials have tentatively blamed storms for the crash of Flight 8501. Minutes before the jet disappeared from radar, the pilot had sought permission to increase altitude because of poor weather conditions. Air-traffic controllers rejected the request because of the high volume of traffic.

The search for the plane, bodies and black boxes were hamstrung by chronic storms, high winds and cloudy seas. Underwater searchers began to hone in on the black boxes after hearing pings from the devices Sunday, but their efforts 100 feet beneath the surface were thwarted by murky conditions and heavy currents.

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On Sunday divers confirmed a large piece of debris detected by sonar was a wing and pieces from the engine.

On Saturday, the tail of the plane was lifted from the seafloor and taken to Pangkalan Bun, the nearest town, to be handed over to Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee for investigation, the airline said in a statement.

Rescue officials said 48 bodies have been recovered as of Monday. AirAsia said 32 of the remains have been identified.

The Indonesian Transport Ministry has said AirAsia did not have a license to fly the route on the day of the crash, a claim AirAsia has vigorously disputed. The airline has been banned from flying the Surabaya-Singapore route. The Transport Ministry has suspended scores of routes from other domestic airlines for similar alleged violations.

Contributing: William M. Welch, Jane Onyanga-Omara and Michael Winter, USA TODAY; The Associated Press

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