Red tape, funding problems hamper Lion Air black box search

JAKARTA - Bureaucratic wrangling and funding problems have hampered the search for the cockpit voice recorder of a crashed Lion Air jet, prompting investigators to turn to the airline to foot the bill in a rare test of global norms on the probe's independence.

Weeks of delays in the search for the second "black box" may complicate the task of explaining how 189 people died when the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max crashed into the Java Sea on Oct 29.

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