- needs special handling to ensure its data survives," the Associated Press reported on Friday.
- National Transport Safety Committee
- said it could take six months to work out what caused the crash
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A black box from the Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea is damaged, and experts could struggle to unlock its records
Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee said it needs to replace internal wiring and clean the box to get at the information inside.
A black box from the Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea on Monday is damaged, and "
The black box salvaged on Thursday morning from Lion Air flight JT 610 is not fully intact, the of the
He said the "crash-survivable memory unit" was broken open and had been affected by the sea water.
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The state of the device is another complication in the process of working out why went wrong with the plane.
Reports since the plane crashed have highlighted apparent technical problems, which led to a distress call the day before it crashed, and a distressing, erratic flight on the trip directly before its fatal take-off from Jakarta.
Satmiko said the state of the device will require Lion Air to provide a new outer casing, and that investigators will have to replace some of the wires inside, the AP reported.
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