PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) -- Divers retrieved the crashed AirAsia plane's second black box from the bottom of the Java Sea on Tuesday, giving experts essential tools to piece together what brought Flight 8501 down.<br />
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The cockpit voice recorder was freed from beneath heavy wreckage at a depth of about 30 meters (100 feet), a day after the flight data recorder was recovered, said Tonny Budiono, sea navigation director at the Transportation Ministry.<br />
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"Thank God," he said. "This is good news for investigators to reveal the cause of the plane crash."<br />
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The device will be flown to the capital, Jakarta, to be analyzed with the other black box, a process that could take up to two weeks. Since it records in a two-hour loop, all discussions between the captain and co-pilot should be available.<br />
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The plane disappeared from radar less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore on Dec. 28. It was carrying 162 people, but only 48 bodies have been recovered so far.
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