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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 has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.