Divers retrieve flight recorder from AirAsia wreck

Divers have retrieved the crashed AirAsia plane’s second black box from the bottom of the Java Sea, giving investigators the essential tools they need to start piecing together what brought Flight 8501 down.

Senior Transportation Ministry official Tonny Budiono said the trapped cockpit voice recorder was freed from beneath the wing’s heavy ruins from a depth of about 30 metres (100ft), a day after the aircraft’s flight data recorder was recovered.