Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, but Indonesian investigators said they plan to launch their own probe as soon as possible.
The crash, the world’s first of a Boeing 737 MAX jet and the deadliest of 2018, killed all 189 people on board.
Contact with flight JT610 was lost 13 minutes after it took off on Oct. 29 from the capital Jakarta heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang.
The main wreckage and the CVR, one of two so-called black boxes, were not recovered in an initial search.