Lion Air crash: plane's black box pulled from water as first victim identified

Divers battle strong currents to find plane’s recording devices as experts comb medical records to identify victims

Indonesian Navy divers say they have retrieved a black box from the Lion Air plane that plunged into the Java Sea on Monday morning, believed to have killed all 189 people on board.

Divers lifted the device from the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft onto their ship on Thursday morning, the fourth day of the search, after narrowing the area since yesterday. It is not yet clear whether they have picked up the cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, or both.

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