A wallet belonging to a victim of the Lion Air passenger jet (Photo: AP)Jakarta (VNA) – Divers on November 1 found landing gear from theIndonesian Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea off western Indonesia onOctober 29, killing all 189 people on board.
Head of Indonesia's National Search andRescue Agency (Basarnas) Muhammad Syaugi said in the evening that the landinggear, larger parts of the crashed aircraft, including some parts of thefuselage, and parts of several dead bodies were found by a remotely operatedunderwater vehicle on the seabed.
Earlier the same day, the aircraft’s blackbox data recorder was detected among debris in the mud on the sea floor at adepth of 32.5m.
Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of the NationalTransportation Safety Committee, said a preliminary accident report should bereleased within a month and the final report could take four to six months.
The jet, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en routefrom Jakarta to Pangkakpinang in Bangka Belitung province off Sumatra island.It lost contact with air traffic control just 13 minutes after takeoff.
The incident is reported to be the firstmajor accident involving a Boeing 737 Max - an updated version of the 737.
The Lion Air crash is the worst airlinedisaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died after a Garuda flightcrashed near Medan.-VNA
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