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Indonesian officials say that they've recovered the flight data recorder from AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which disappeared Dec. 28, killing all 162 people onboard. Teams are still looking for the cockpit voice recorder.

The plane was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, and is now 98 feet deep in the Java Sea, the BBC reports. Investigators are hopeful that the flight data recorder will be able to explain what happened to the aircraft.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.