Rescuers hunting for the crashed AirAsia plane in the Java Sea on Friday detected “pings” believed to have come from its crucial black box and were gearing up to lift the jet’s tail from the seabed, as the latest breakthrough raised hopes of solving the mystery of the crash.
“A ship detected the pings. The divers are trying to reach it,” search and rescue agency coordinator Supriyadi said in Pangkalan Bun, the town closest to the site. “The location of the ping is reported to be near where the tail was found,” he said. Searchers spotted the tail section — where the black box is located — 30 kms from the plane’s last known location on Wednesday, a day after divers joined the multi-national hunt. Officials say the black box could have been