First Lieutenant Infantry Taufik, one Kopassus members who participated found the black box is recalled, the black box located in the extreme terrain. Taufik found the black box of approximately 100 meters near the location of the tail.
"We ran up the tail. In the sweep we find some boxes in the tail, but after we check and confirm it was not a box that we're looking for," said Taufik told AFP on Wednesday (16/05/2012).
To get to the location of the black box, the team must pass a cliff with a slope of up to 85 degrees. "We went to the ropes and techniques to survive by using the root of the tree," he explained.
Special Forces teams finally started doing finding 100 meters to the top of the tail. "That's where we find objects that are suspected of Black Boxes. Condition is half buried in the ground state in black premises on fire," he explained.
Then, Cont Taufik, after his report was correct and to check it was the fateful plane's blackbox.
"We were provided with a photograph before leaving the blac kbox. Orange color in the picture. After we picked up and the match turned out timbukl orange. And certainly it is blac kbox," he explained.
Taufik said the object bebrobot approximately 3 pounds with black fire conditions. "But, still intact," he said.
