Preparation removal of the tail AirAsia QZ8501. (Reuters/Adek Berry)
Pangkalan Bun - Ships belonging to the Ministry of Transportation, KN Jadayat, picking up signals from the black box AirAsia QZ8501, Friday (9/1). The signal received by the pinger locator in the ship.
"It was time to catch the Jadayat ship 'ping', but then disappeared again. I do not know how many times the ping signal appears, "said Commander SAR Mission Coordinator Post Pangkalan Bun, Air commodore SB Supriyadi, in Iskandar Airbase, Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan.
According Supriyadi, the signal detected is about one kilometer from the tail of the plane will be removed. But the tail section lying on the seabed at a depth of 34 meters it until this afternoon can not be removed because the weather turned bad.
AirAsia QZ8501 original black box allegedly still in the tail which will be appointed that. But after the team parachuted into the sea divers to investigate, the black box was not there at the tail.
After the black box known nothing in the tail, then the pinger locator turned to trace its existence, because the black box signal can only be captured by pinger locator.
Pinger locator is a small tool for sending sonar signals to the black box. If the signal is received a black box, it will send the black box behind the existence of the complete information.
Pinger locator operates under the sea, and the usual attached to the robot without early controlled wirelessly from the ship. Sonar signals emitted by the device can reach up to a depth of 6.000 meters.
Search black box with pinger locator must be careful. Before pinger locator is used, the operating area should be sterilized, either from other ships and divers, because pinger locator can make divers ear is damaged.
The black box is one of the major search object Joint Evacuation Team, because it is the key instrument for uncovering AirAsia QZ8501 accident. The black box contains recordings of conversations between the pilots in the cockpit of the plane with a guide tower air traffic or air traffic controllers (ATC) at the airport.
(Source: CNN)
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