Searchers have found the flight recorders of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea, officials said Monday, a major breakthrough in the effort to figure out why the plane crashed last month.
Divers found the flight data recorder under the wreckage of one of the plane's wings, said Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency.
The search teams have also located but not yet recovered the other key source of information about the plane, the cockpit voice recorder, said Mardjono Siswosuwarno, the chief investigator into the crash.
The voice recorder is underneath debris, he said, expressing hope that it could be retrieved easily.
The two devices, known popularly as black boxes, are seen as crucial to unraveling the mystery of what brought down Flight QZ8501 as it flew toward Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya with 162 people on board.
Coupled with the debris that's already been collected, the data recorder will enable investigators to "begin to paint the picture of exactly what happened when things went terribly wrong for this aircraft.
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