AKIPRESS.COM - The "black box" voice recorder from a Lion Air flight which crashed off the coast of Jakarta in October has been recovered, BBC reports citing officials on Monday.

All 189 people on board died when Flight JT610 fell into the sea shortly after taking off for the short journey to Pangkal Pinang.

The pilot had asked air traffic control for permission to turn back to the airport but then contact was lost.

Investigators say the plane had encountered technical problems.

The main body of the aircraft has never been found.

The bright orange voice recorder was found at least 50m (165ft) from where the first black box - the plane's flight data recorder - was found last November.

The voice recorder was found on Monday morning but was "broken into two pieces".

"Hopefully it's still useful [to investigators]," Haryo Satmiko, deputy head of Indonesia's transport safety committee (KNKT) told Agence France-Presse.