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Indonesia: Teams Detect Pings at AirAsia Flight 8501 Site Indonesia: Teams Detect Pings at AirAsia Flight 8501 Site
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Indonesian search and recovery teams hunting for the wreck of AirAsia Flight 8501 have detected pings in their efforts to find the black box recorders, Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, said Friday. The AirAsia flight vanished from radar screens on Dec. 28 on its way from Indonesia’s second-biggest city, Surabaya, to Singapore. No survivors have been found among the 162 people on board. Teams loaded lifting balloons onto helicopters on Friday before an operation to raise the tail section of the jet, although Mr. Sayogo said it appeared that the black box was no longer in the tail and divers were confirming its position. Indonesian officials said Friday that search and rescue teams had detected pinging from the black box recorders of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28 with 162 people aboard. Tatang Zainuddin, deputy chief of operations for the National Search and Rescue Agency, said a research ship from Indonesia’s Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology had picked up pinging from the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders on Thursday afternoon. He said that the Sampson, an American Navy destroyer, had also detected the pinging. He said the authorities had not yet determined the exact coordinates of the black boxes. The bodies of 45 victims had been reovered as of Thursday.