Divers In Indonesia Find Crashed Airliner’s ‘Black Box’

Personal items recovered from Lion Air flight JT610 by search-and-rescue personnel at the Tanjung Priok port on Wednesday in Jakarta.

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Divers have located one of two black box recorders from Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed into the Java Sea earlier this week with 189 people aboard, offering a critical piece of evidence in the investigation into what caused the disaster.

Search-and-rescue officials first heard a “ping” believed to be emitted by one of the black boxes on Wednesday, two days after the Boeing 737 Max 8 went down.

As The Associated Press reports: