Indonesian divers find plane wreckage and black boxes in Java Sea

Officials from the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee inspect parts of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 retrieved from the java Sea (Tatan Syuflana/AP)

Indonesian authorities said on Sunday that they have determined the site where a plane with 62 people on board crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off.

National Search and Rescue Agency head Bagus Puruhito said officials believe they have located the Boeing 737-500’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder – the so-called black boxes – because emergency signals transmitted by the devices were detected by a navy ship’s sonar system.