... he National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) confirmed that the aircraft item is the black box...Bogor, West Java (ANTARA News) - The black box of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed at Mount Salak in Bogor, West Java, recently, has been found.
A joint team members from the army's Kopassus special force and the Indonesia Rock Climbing Federation discovered the black box at the site of the crash on Tuesday.
"After checking it the National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) confirmed that the aircraft item carried by the Kopassus team is the black box," the chief of the 061st Suryakencana Military Command, Col. AM Putranto, said.Â
Black box is a common name for an instrument consist of two main part. They are Cokcpit Voice Recorder which records every conversations inside the cockpit, and Flight Data Recorder to record the performance of hundreds instruments that control the aeroplane.Â
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