DIVERS have reported seeing the fuselage and engines of a crashed Lion Air plane on the seabed, and a ping locator has detected a signal which may be from the cockpit voice recorder, Indonesia’s search and rescue chief has said.
The brand new Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea on Monday, minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
Speaking on the sixth day of the search, Muhammad Syaugi said two engines and more landing gear had been found.
“I haven’t seen it myself but I got information from some divers that they have seen the fuselage,” he said at a news conference at a Jakarta port where body bags, debris and passenger belongings are first taken.
The Lion Air crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died on a Garuda flight near Medan.
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