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Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan appreciated various parties involved in the discovery of Lion Air PK-LQP Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). The results of this CVR analysis will be an important clue to the cause of the plane which crashed in Karawang, West Java, last October 29, 2018. In a press conference at the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Jakarta, Monday (1/21), Luhut invited various parties involved in the discovery of Lion Air’s CVR, among others Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) Soerjanto Tjahjono, Head of the Rescue Underwater Service Colonel Monang Sitompul and 4 divers who managed to find the CVR. To the media, Luhut told how the Fleet Command I of Underwater Rescue Team and Frogman and Underwater demolition unit personnel worked hard to discover the CVR.

"They modiefied conventional methods carried out by a team hired from Singapore, which was quite expensive, which we rented 3.5 million dollars for 10 days and was unsuccessful. The advantage thing is that they have minimized the search sector. While the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) team built a team using a Navy ship. Then the equipment was provided by Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology BPPT, and they became a team,” said Luhut.

Meanwhile the Chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Committee Soerjanto Tjahjono said that currently the Committee is in the process of analyzing the results of the CVR reading and it is expected that in less than one year the report on the CVR results can be issued. (VOI / AHM / edit r)