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At 10.44 am (12 January 2015), Indonesian elite divers went to depths of 30 metres to retrieve black boxes belonging to ill-fated flight Air Asia QZ8501. After shifting through mud and pieces of plane wreckage, the divers finally managed to locate and recover one of the two blackboxes, the flight data recorder. Later in the morning, Indonesian rescue chief confirmed that only the flight data recorder has been retrieved and that the cockpit voice recorder is still missing.

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday handed over two black boxes recovered from the crash site of the MH17 jet to Malaysian officials at a press conference. They also announced a ceasefire within a 10-kilometre radius around the crash site to allow international investigators to safely access the vast area where the Malaysia Airlines flight was downed Thursday.