Search teams have recovered one of the critical flight recorders from an Indonesian airliner that crashed last weekend in the
Authorities said the recovered box is the flight data recorder, which logs all of the plane's technical data from the flight. Officials said the other, the cockpit voice recorder, has not yet been located.
Officials said the recorder has been turned over to
It was initially reported over the weekend, incorrectly, that both boxes had been located.
Saturday's was the first plane crash in
The aircraft involved in Saturday's crash is not a 737 Max, but a much older 737-500 model. It entered service in 1994.
Fifty passengers and 12 crew members were aboard the flight. Families have been gathering at the victim identification center in
A number of the victims have been identified.
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