JAKARTA (Antara): The government will resume searching black-box of Adam Air plane, which likely sank in Makassar Straits during its flight from East Java's capital of Surabaya to North Sumatra's capital of Manado early this year.
"The searching will continue. It may resume in July," Transportation Ministry's Air Director General Budhi M. Suyotno was quoted as saying Thursday.
He said the U.S.' National Transportation Safety Board had expressed its wish to help search the black-box, which sank together with the plane and all of its passengers.
Budhi said Adam Air and the Indonesia's National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) to seek international institutions to fund the searching program. He said his office also approachedthe World Bank and Boeing plane maker.
He said the searching need some US$5 million to $6 million.
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