Inspections ordered amid search for plane 02:15
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) — Indonesian investigators searching for the flight recorders of
crashed Lion Air flight 610 have heard transponder “pings” that could lead them to the devices,
and answer questions as to why the new Boeing 737 MAX 8 went down, killing 189 people.
Haryo Satmiko, deputy director of the National Transport Safety Committee, told CNN in a text
message that, while the pings had been detected, investigators needed more “technical efforts”
to find the exact location of the so-called “black boxes”.
Small pieces of debris and remains of some people on board the plane have been retrieved
from the water off Jakarta, but the main body of the plane has been missing since it
disappeared from radar on Monday around 6:30 a.m. local time.