JAKARTA (AP): Salvage crews have recovered the flight data recorders of an Indonesian jetliner that plunged into the sea nearly nine months ago and killed all 102 people onboard, a senior government official said Tuesday.
"They have retrieved two black boxes," said Tatang Kurniadi, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Commission, after a vessel operated by the U.S. company Phoenix International scoured waters off Sulawesi island.
"God willing, they are still readable."
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. (**)
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