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View all search resultsData of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 that had been recorded until the plane descended to 250 feet (76.3 meters) above the water's surface before the crash on Saturday have "indicated that the flight system was functioning and able to send data," according to Soerjanto Tjahjono, chief of the National Transportation Safety Commission.
Navy chief of staff Adm. Yudo Margono has canceled the ceremony for Dharma Samudera (Oceanic Service) Day and instead deployed naval vessels to assist the search and rescue (SAR) efforts to find the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, which crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday afternoon
Searching around the clock, about 2,600 rescuers with 13 planes and 53 ships have been deployed, recovering human remains believed to be those of some of the 62 people who were on board Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 as well as suspected debris from the aircraft.
Retrieving the boxes -- cockpit voice and flight data recorders -- will likely help explain why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea.
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