Singapore: Divers today retrieved the cockpit voice recorder of the AirAsia jet that plunged into the Java Sea two weeks ago with 162 people aboard, giving experts essential tools to unravel the mystery of the crash.

The cockpit voice recorder has been retrieved from the bottom of the Java Sea and it is now on an Indonesian navy ship, said an Indonesian official. The device will be flown to the capital, Jakarta, to be downloaded and analyzed with the flight data recorder.