Aircraft
Search Teams Recover CVR from Ill-fated Lion Air 737
The flight data recorder could hold vital clues about Flight 610’s last moments.

Indonesian search teams have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, marking a major breakthrough in the investigation into the cause of the disaster that took the lives of all 189 people on board. The Indonesian Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Center, in collaboration with the country’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), last week deployed an oceanographic survey ship called the KRI Spica-934 in hopes of detecting acoustic signals from the CVR. Indonesian Navy spokesman Agung Nugroho told Reuters that searchers found the recorder on Monday morning under mud on the sea floor and roughly 150 meters from where crews retrieved the flight data recorder on November 1.