Aviation authorities are struggling to remove a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed into the sea on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali because it is too heavy to tow in the shallow water.
Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan told the Jakarta Post that divers are also facing difficulties removing the cockpit voice recorder located in the plane’s tail, which is submerged.
All 108 people on board survived Saturday’s crash when the plane came down in water just short of Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport and snapped in two.
Ervan said authorities have decided to cut the wreckage into several parts instead of towing because it weighs too much and could damage the area’s coral reefs.
The Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft had been received by the airline only in March.
For the moment, it lies in sight of passengers in aircraft taking off and landing at Ngurah Rai airport.
