“AirAsia Black Boxes Found”
By: Alana Horowitz
Source: Huffington
Post
There
have been many missing planes and ones that malfunction lately. First it was
Malaysian Airlines and now AirAsia. People are beginning to question the safety
of flying. The causes of these accidents are unknown at the moment. An
Indonesian Transport Ministry announced that divers had found boxes, boxes that
might reveal important information. These black boxes might be the only way
people find out the causes of these accidents and find ways to stop more from
happening. Both AirAsia and Malaysian Airlines have lost business due to these
events, and there might never be a way to regain it. This AirAsia flight was on
its way to Singapore from Indonesia. It went missing on the 28th of
December, 2014, approximately forty minutes after its takeoff from the airport.
All 162 people on board died, leaving their families devastated and sad. A
couple days later, some debris and human remains were found in the Java Sea.
Monday, January 9, the plane’s tail was found and recovered. “The black boxes
contain the plane’s cockpit-voice recorder and flight data recorder” (1). The
divers have not yet physically recovered the black box, because it is covered
under debris. Finding this black box may answer the questions everyone is
asking. Was it a hijacking? Are the current planes not able to fly in these
weather conditions? These companies need this black box to know whether to increase
their security or to improve and upgrade their planes. An Indonesian official
said that a rescue crew will try to recover the box on Monday.
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