Adam air plane recover

BLACK BOXES FROM INDONESIAN PLANE RECOVERED Black box data recorders from an Adam Air jet have been found, eight months after the plane crashed killing all 102 people aboard. The recorders were found almost 1.5 km apart. On New Years Day, Adam Air Flight KI 574 suddenly went missing off South Sulawesi during a flight from Surabaya to Manado. The budget airline jet had fallen out of the sky over the sea and there were concerns that the plane's data recorders would never be recovered. The flight data recorder was recovered two km under the sea while the voice cockpit recorder was found 1.5 km away at a depth of 1,900 metres. The boxes are being sent to the United States for analysis. Tatang Kurniadi, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Commission, said that the two black boxes had been found after a vessel operated by U.S. company Phoenix International scoured waters off Sulawesi island. Indonesia is trying to improve its safety image after three plane accidents this year prompted the European Union to blacklist all of country's airlines. The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority also downgraded the nation's rating to its lowest category. Signals from the Adam Air Boeing 737's so-called black boxes were detected weeks after the New Year's Day crash, but disagreements over who should pay held up recovery efforts, angering aviation security experts and families of the victims. Tatang said the flight data recorders, which contain crucial conversations from the cockpit and instrument readings, have been brought to the Makassar port on Sulawesi island.