Indonesia seeks help to recover 'black boxes' from crashed plane

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2007

JAKARTA (AFP) — US and Indonesian officials have been holding talks on retrieving "black box" flight recorders from an Indonesian airliner that crashed into the ocean with 102 passengers.

A US naval ocean survey ship found the black boxes, and large amounts of other debris, from the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 which disappeared on New Year's Day off the west coast of Sulawesi island, a US embassy spokeswoman said Friday.

The USNS Mary Sears located them in deep ocean waters after detecting the ultrasonic signal transmitted by their emergency locator beacon.

Retrieving the boxes could help determine what happened to the plane after it disappeared off radar screens trigggering a massive sea and land search.

Indonesia, however, does not have the technology...