Hunt for black-box underway as investigators seek answers after Lion Air crash

Rescuers and search teams are about now doing all they can to find any survivors and possibly locate the black box of the crashed Lion Air passenger flight which went down into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff.

According to reports, divers hunted for the main fuselage and deployed underwater beacons to trace the flight’s black box recorders in order to find out what caused the crash.

“Hopefully this morning we can find the wreckage or fuselage,” Soerjanto Tjahjono, the head of Indonesia’s transport safety panel, told Reuters news agency.

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Rescue operatives say they fear that there might be no survivors in the crash involving the almost brand new Boeing 737 Lion Air passenger flight with 189 people on board heading from Jakarta to the island of Sumatra before it crashed.

According to Yohanes Sirait, a spokesman for the country’s air navigation authorities, the pilots requested to return to base shortly before losing contact.

 

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