Today's Search For Sriwijaya Air SJ-182: One Bag Of Aircraft Debris

JAKARTA - Basarnas Operations Director, Brigadier General Rasman, said the search for the joint SAR team on the day found a bag containing small pieces of the plane.

Meanwhile, today the SAR team did not find any body parts or body parts of the victims or large pieces of the plane. These findings were brought by a ship belonging to the Indonesian Navy in the afternoon.

"Today we only receive from our divers, the combined SAR in the form of a small bag of aircraft debris. Meanwhile, there are no body parts. Then the large pieces are not there," said Rasman at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, North Jakarta, Wednesday, January 20. .

Rasman admitted that he did not really know the cause of the search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182.

"Those who understand the conditions below are them (the SAR team and divers)," said Rasman.

There were also a total of 324 body bags containing body parts until the twelfth day at 18.00 WIB. Then, as many as 116 aircraft materials, with details of 64 small bags containing aircraft debris and 55 large aircraft pieces.

Currently, the SAR team has also found a black box type flight data recorder (FDR) and a black box cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shell. Meanwhile, CVR core memory has not been found.

Since this morning, the joint SAR Team has continued the search for victims and materials of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft with a focus on looking for findings under the sea.

"To focus our search more on underwater. We divide it into four sectors. We determine the zone 15 to 30 meters multiplied by four sectors. So, we narrow it down there because it is estimated that is where the breakdown point or the point of fall is. done yesterday, we can still find the victim's body parts and debris, "said Rasman.

However, the search operation as a whole still uses the three media method, namely in the air, at sea level and under the sea.

Against searches in the air, the SAR team remotely monitors aircraft material and victims that appear on the surface. Meanwhile, in a surface search, the team will comb searches on the coast.

"On the surface, we will continue to strive around the island, then on the North coast of Java towards Jakarta, Banten, and so on," he said.