Case Of A Boy Thrown From A Helicopter In Timika, KNKT Brings The Black Box To Jakarta

The joint SAR team evacuates victims of a helicopter that made an emergency landing in the interior of Timika, Wednesday, June 8th. (ANTARA/HO/Personal Documents)

TIMIKA - The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) will bring the black box belonging to the Bell 412 SP helicopter to Jakarta. The effort was to find out the cause of the incident when the boy was thrown out when the helicopter was on the Jila route to Timika.

"Currently there are two KNKT officers who have arrived in Timika," said KNKT Papua representative Norbert Tunyana, Thursday evening, June 9. Admittedly, the black box is now in Timika. From the results of the examination of the black box, the cause of the incident will be known when the helicopter made an emergency landing in the interior of Timika, Papua, Wednesday, June 8th. Norbert said that the helicopter belonging to PT. Derazona Air Service was reportedly carrying 11 passengers and crew. Separately, based on an Antara report, the Head of Public Relations of the Papuan Police Kombes Kamal said the joint SAR team had found the child who was the victim in the incident experienced by the helicopter with flight number PK-DAR. Victim Fidelis (5) was thrown out of the helicopter during an emergency landing due to bad weather. or crash landing. Kombes Kamal said the victim's body had been evacuated to Timika. With the discovery of Fidelis' body, the SAR operation was also closed.