The Indonesian authorities had found the cockpit voice recorder in the
Java Sea on January 14 and it could take at least a year to publish a full report into the crash, reports said.
In the wake of last October's fatal Lion Air crash in which a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane suddenly plummeted into the
Java Sea and killed all 189 people on board, there has been intense scrutiny over the popular aircraft model involved in the crash.
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (SAR) has deployed boats, helicopter and 130 rescuers, including teams from three cities including Jakarta, Bandung and Lampung to the vicinity of the crash site in the
Java Sea, 34 nautical miles off the coast near Jakarta, reported CNN.
Gee, who survived hard labor in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, and Rosalie Smith, who worked as a nurse at the end of the war and helped prisoners of war record their experiences, describe how Gee joined the US Marine Corps in 1940 and was posted to the USS Houston, which was attacked during the battle of the Flores Sea and sunk by the Japanese fleet during the battle of the
Java Sea in 1942.
after the Houston sank during the battle of
Java Sea. He was initially held prisoner in Java and used as forced labor to unload enemy ships; later, he was transferred to Burma and worked on the notorious "death railway", followed by moves to Thailand, Singapore, and Japan.
London: The British government is in talks with Indonesia over the disappearance of half a dozen sunken warships illegally salvaged from the
Java Sea, together with the remains of hundreds of Dutch and British sailors.
The Genting Dream takes the guests for shipping trips from Singapore to some destinations in the Malacca Straits and the
Java Sea.
The authors do not restrict themselves to an account of the
Java Sea battle.
In 2014 an Indonesia AirAsia A320 crashed into the
Java Sea. All 162 on board died.
"Thirteen major rivers flow through the capital leading to the
Java Sea," he explained.
The Airbus A320-200 plunged into the
Java Sea in stormy weather on December 28, during what was supposed to be a routine flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
Sumenep, Madura Island, located on the
Java Sea north of East Java