Divers recover ‘black box’ from crashed Indonesia plane

Investigators of the National Transportation Safety Committee inspect parts of debris recovered from the Java Sea (Dita Alangkara/AP)

Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board.

The device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean in heavy rain shortly after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday.