Indonesia jet 'black boxes' found

A US ship has located the “black box” flight recorders of the Indonesian plane that went missing on 1 January, the US embassy said.
The USNS Mary Sears, which has been helping hunt for the missing Boeing 737, detected a distinctive signal from the boxes on the ocean floor.

The Adam Air flight, which went missing half way through its flight from Java to Sulawesi, had 102 people on board.

Parts of the plane have been washed up off the west coast of Sulawesi.

The Mary Sears located signals “on the same frequency” as the black boxes of the missing plane, the US embassy in Jakarta said in a statement.

The ship also “detected heavy debris scattered over a wide area”, which is being analysed to verify whether it is the missing aircraft, the statement added.

Information from the flight recorders could help investigators determine the cause of the crash.

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