KRI Rigel Continues To Monitor Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Black Box Signals

JAKARTA - KRI Rigel 933 continues to monitor the black box signal of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the Thousand Islands. The results of the analysis will later be submitted to the dive team on duty this morning.

"Tonight KRI Rigel continues to carry out sensors and subsurface detection. "The results will be analyzed tonight, tomorrow morning we will be briefed again and then we will go down using a ping locater to a position where there is a suspected black box," said Marine Colonel Johan Wahyudi, the Operations Director of Kopaska TNI AL, in an interview at around 23.40 WIB, Sunday, January 10, quoted from the broadcast. Metro TV.

It is confirmed that Johan will certainly hear the dive team first about the location of the black box signal from the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane route Jakarta-Pontianak to be detected in the waters of the Thousand Islands.

"Because this black box has not been found. The first thing is tomorrow, we will discuss the results of tonight's analysis. After that, we go to the suspected position, we install new equipment and lower the diver in the suspected position. Whether it is buried in debris at the bottom, the seabed, we will wait for tomorrow, hopefully there will be no obstacles, ”continued Johan.

Basarnas has prepared a scheme to search for black boxes and victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the Thousand Islands. Divers will be divided into the search to be carried out Monday, January 11 morning.

"From Basarnas, there are 30 divers and assisted by the Navy, Kopaska, Marines, Denjaka, a total of 150 personnel are assisted by volunteers. (So) there are approximately 200 in the field, ”said Basarnas Deputy for Operations, Relief and Preparedness, Bambang Suryo Aji, Sunday, January 10.

It is planned that the dive operation for the search for black box and victims of the Sriwijaya Air plane for the Jakarta-Pontianak route which crashed on Saturday, January 9 afternoon will start around 07.00-08.00 WIB.

"We will be briefing the joint SAR team to give an explanation and the division of their working areas," he said.

This search will be carried out through air monitoring and diving. Basarnas has detected the coordinates of the alleged Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 black box.

"The alleged position of the black box is in the coordinates of about 5 degrees-57 minutes-52 seconds south latitude and 106 degrees-34 minutes-37 seconds Southeast. We will further deepen it, tomorrow we will be even sharper, both deployed by divers and the NTSC team working together with the joint team to explore black box points, "continued Bambang.

The divers who are specifically tasked with finding the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 black box will carry a pinger locater. The black box position will be analyzed if you need special tools to take it.

"The search is now being carried out using the current equipment being carried out using a multibeam echosounder sonar device to confirm the situation below, and ensure the position of the black box must be visually with the ROV. For blackbox retrieval, just a pinger locator that catches the signal so that with the signal emission we can get close, "said Bambang.