Divers in Indonesia continue to search for victims and debris after a passenger plane carrying 189 people crashed shortly after take off.
On Tuesday, search and rescue divers were sent up to 115 feet underwater where the Lion Air plane went down.
Ground staff lost contact with the plane early Monday about 13 minutes after it took off from the Jakarta airport in the country’s capital.
Indonesian navy frogmen emerge from the water during a search operation for the victims of the crashed Lion Air plane in the waters of Tanjung Karawang, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. Divers searched Tuesday for victims of the Lion Air plane crash and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its data recorders as reports emerged of problems on the jet’s previous flight that had terrified passengers. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Underwater beacons were also deployed to find the aircraft’s black box and help determine the cause of the crash.
“We will use the equipment ‘ping finder’, because the black box emits a high pitched noise at the frequency of 390-kilohertz,” explained an official. “There’s also a sonar scanner, after that, we will send in divers to find the position of black box, hopefully we can get the black box and the flight wreckage.”
So far, officials have found multiple bodies from the crash and are not expecting to find any survivors.
— the plane’s manufacturer — has since released a statement to express their condolences for the victims and their families.
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UPDATED 7:24 AM PT — Tues. Oct. 30, 2018
