The Aif Force Command Headquarters says a salvage team will be dispatched to
retrieve the Flight Data Recorder from the F-16V fighter jet that disappeared
off Hualien last week.

The black box was located after Defense Minister Wellington Koo annouced on
Monday that intermittent signals had been detected in a search area.

Reports say the Air Force is hoping to tap Singaporean or Japanese salvage
companies to help with the retrieval mission, since Taiwan firms are unable
to carry out deep-sea salvage operations.

Operations searching for the aircraft' pilot, Captain Hsin Po-yi are
on-going.

The F-16V went missing on the evening of January 6 just over an hour after
taking off from the Hualien Air Base on a routine nighttime training mission.

The Air Force is still investigating the possible cause of the incident, but
reports have been saying the aircrafts modular mission computer may have
malfunctioned, resulting in the pilot suffering spatial disorientation.