A report that the 'black box' has been found:
Lion Air crash: Black box of sunken JT610 believed to have been recoveredPublished
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JAKARTA - Indonesian divers on Thursday (Nov 1) appeared to have recovered the black box that holds vital clues on what caused Lion Air flight JT610 to crash into Java Sea on Monday in one of the country's worst aviation disasters in history.
"We followed the device, and narrowed the area (of search) and then we dug again the location where the sensitive (ping) sound was heard and finally found the blackbox," said diver Hendra who found the black box.
The national search and rescue agency Basarnas chief Muhammad Syaugi told reporters earlier that the search on Thursday morning will focus on sector four of the search area that is divided into 13 sectors.
"(Sector four) is the area where we detected what we suspect is a body part of the plane. And also where we picked up the 'ping'," he said, referring to the sound emitting from the black boxes and picked up by underwater "pinger locators".
The search area has been doubled in size to cover a 10-nautical-mile-radius area with the centre located at the point where the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after take-off on Monday morning.
Syaugi told Elshinta radio on Thursday morning that the search teams will have a better chance of recovering the black boxes on Thursday after they received the go-ahead from state oil company Pertamina to throw an anchor to stabilise the main search and rescue vessel."Yesterday afternoon, the currents were strong. We had to throw an anchor, but we only had clearance to do so last night from Pertamina. The sea floor there is lined with Pertamina pipes," head of the national search and rescue agency (Basarnas) Muhammad Syaugi told Elshinta radio on Thursday morning.