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Gen. Moeldoko picks up AirAsia's FDR
Indonesian military commander Gen
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ndonesian military commander Gen. Moeldoko flew to naval vessel KRI Banda Aceh in the Karimata Strait of the Java Sea on Monday to pick up AirAsia flight QZ8501's flight data recorder (FDR), which was recovered earlier in the morning.
Gen. Moeldoko was accompanied by the head of the National Transportation Safety Commission (KNKT), Tatang Kurniadi.
They both took a helicopter from the Iskandar Muda military air base in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Antara news agency reported.
According to the chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Air Marshal FH Bambang Soelistyo, the Airbus A320's FDR was recovered by the joint search and rescue (SAR) team at 7:11 a.m. local time on Monday.
'We are now looking for the plane's CVR [cockpit voice recorder] and the bodies of people on board AirAsia flight QZ8501,' Bambang said. (nfo)(++++)
