A couple of billion Rupiah and the black boxes will have been stolen by persons unknown.
It appears that the FDR's and CVR's from previous Lion Air incidents have made it to qualified labs for analysis. Anybody know otherwise? I hope that is the case in this accident. I am surprised that no news coverage has yet reported where they were sent.
Aside from the insurance and liability needs for determining a cause, there is a 737-800 fleet safety need to know. If this airplane impacted the water similar to the US Air A320 on the Hudson, the fuselage should not have broken as it did. If it stalled (or hit by a microburst??) and dropped several hundred feet hitting tail first as the Turkish accident did at Schiphol airport, that may explain the condition of the fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.
The National 727-200 that landed in Pensacola Bay 35 years ago was largely intact. The aft fuselage belly skin was partially peeled away, but as pictured below, it was lifted out of the Bay in one piece.
