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They locate wreckage the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed the sea.

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Indonesian authorities located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed at sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Sunday, when human body parts and parts of the plane were recovered.

See also: Lion Air plane leaves runway after landing in Lampung.

The Boeing 737-500, with 62 people on board, was headed for Pontianak in West Kalimantan on Saturday before disappearing from radar screens four minutes after takeoff, Reuters reported.

The head of Indonesia’s National Committee for Transport Security (KNKT), Soerjanto Tjahjono, said the locations of the two black boxes on flight SJ182 had been identified.

See also: U.S. accuses new suspect in Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

There are still no clues as to what might have happened to the plane. This is the first major plane crash in Indonesia since 189 people died in 2018 when a Boeing 737 Max from Lion Air also crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Flight tracking service, Flightradar24, said the aircraft took off at 2:36 p.m. local time and reached 10,900 feet in four minutes. It then began a steep descent and stopped transmitting data 21 seconds later.

“We are in touch with our airline customers and are ready to support them during this difficult time,” Boeing said in a statement.

Founded in 2003, the Jakarta-based Sriwijaya Air Group flies mainly within the vast Indonesian archipelago. The low-cost carrier has a strong safety record, with no onboard fatalities in four incidents recorded in the Air Safety Network database.

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