JAKARTA - The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has managed to identify the fourth victim of the ATR 42-500 aircraft with the registration number PK-THT belonging to the Indonesian Air Transport (AIT) airline company that crashed in the Bulusaraung mountains, Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi, named Esther Aprilita.
"We have received one bag of bodies with the number PM.62B.04, identified through fingerprints, properties, and medical characteristics, matching the antimortem number 002, the name of Esther Aprilita Binarsit Sianipar, 26 years old, female," said Head of Biddokes Polda Sulsel Kombes Pol Muhammad Haris at a press conference at the Biddokes DVI Post Kumala Makassar Road, Friday, quoted by Antara.
The victim is located at Perum Bukit Ranca Maya Number 1 Block E2, Cihiran Village, Petedok, Carigin District, Bogor, West Java Province. Until today, three victims have been identified by the DVI team after being evacuated by the joint SAR team.
The joint DVI team that carried out the identification came from the Biddokkes of the South Sulawesi Police, the DVI team of the National Police Pusdokes, the Identification team of the South Sulawesi Police, the Pusiden team of the National Police, and the Department of Forensic and Medicological Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of Unhas.
"The joint team has managed to identify a total of three victims from the 4 bags of bodies received from. We continue to identify them professionally and carefully according to procedures," he said.
The victim was a flight attendant on the ATR aircraft of the private airline AIT who was involved in the accident with 10 people, consisting of seven crew members and three passengers.
The identification was carried out by a joint DVI team, after receiving a body bag in good condition at the Biddokes DVI post of the South Sulawesi Police on Thursday (22/1), at 23.42 Wita after being successfully evacuated by the joint SAR team out of the local mountains.
Furthermore, the DVI team immediately carried out the identification process for the victim by taking and matching post mortem data and antemortem data with the victim's family until it was declared to be a match.
So far, his party has identified three bodies of the victims of the plane crash, namely Florencia Lolita Wibisono, the flight attendant, followed by Deden Maulana, ASN of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), and Esther Aprilita Binarsit Sianipar, the flight attendant.
A total of one bag containing the body part or body parts of the victim is still in the process of identification after being received by the team on Thursday (22/1) evening, while the seven packages received by the DVI Post today, six bags of bodies and one bag of body parts were immediately identified.
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