Indonesian researchers are starting to monitor more than two hours of talks
on the cockpit voice recorder of the Lion Air aircraft that crashed in the
Java Sea in October. They hope to unravel the cause of the worst aviation
disaster in the country in decades.
 
The National Transportation Safety Committee expects the transcription of
the 124-minute recording to be completed by Tuesday, Nurcahyo Utomo, the
chief investigator at the agency, said Friday. The quality of the
recordings of the last flight that took less than 15 minutes is good, he
said.
 
The researchers may need two to three months to analyze the recordings, in
combination with the findings of the flight data recorder that was
recovered in November. The Lion Air aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, crashed
into the Java sea shortly after take-off on 29 October. All 189 people on
board were killed.

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