AirAsia voice recorder recovered from Java Sea

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Divers on Tuesday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the AirAsia flight that crashed Dec. 28 into the Java Sea on its way from Indonesia to Singapore. 162 people died in the crash.

The data recorder was retrieved on Monday, and now both devices will be analyzed in Jakarta, USA Today reports. The voice recorder holds two hours worth of conversations between the pilot, co-pilot, crew, and air traffic control, and it could take several weeks for all of the information to be downloaded. "It's going to provide us with an ocean of material," aviation expert John Goglia told USA Today.

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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.