One ‘black box’ recovered from crashed Lion Air plane

JAKARTA --- One black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, the head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said Thursday, which could be critical to establishing why the brand new plane fell out of the sky. The devices record information about the speed, altitude and direction of the plane as well as flight crew conversations and could hold vital clues to the cause of the deadly accident. "We found one of the black boxes," Soerjanto Tjahjono told AFP. It was not clear whether it was the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder. The Boeing-737 MAX 8, which went into service just a few months ago, plunged into the Java Sea off Indones...

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