It was not clear whether the box found was the cabin voice recorder or the flight data recorder, CNN Indonesia reported. An Indonesian Navy team recovered the box on Tuesday night.
Indonesian Navy divers found the wreckage of flight SJ 182 on Sunday after locating a signal from the fuselage of the Boeing jet. A team recovered remains and parts of the plane from the site.
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in the waters northwest of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Saturday afternoon, just after takeoff. The flight crashed between the Thousand Islands, a popular tourist destination among Indonesians. The flight was destined for Pontianak, a city in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.