Family members of a passenger of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ 182 react at a hospital after the plane crashed into the sea off the Jakarta coast, in Indonesia, on Wednesday. (Reuters photo)
The search for one of the black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday has been suspended due to bad weather, Indonesian officials said.
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 plunged into the sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Jakarta at 2.36pm. Rescue workers have been bringing human remains and plane parts ashore for identification. The jet’s flight-data recorder was retrieved Tuesday, but the other black box that captures pilot communications and sounds from the cockpit hasn’t been recovered.
“The weather is still not conducive, so operations that are focused…
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