8 Victims Of Susi Air Accident In Papua, Residents Helped Away From The Fall Location

Evacuation of victims of the Susi Air plane crash in Timika, Papua, Thursday, June 23. (Between)

PAPUA - As many as eight victims of the Susi Air plane that suffered an accident on the flight from Dumo to Timika, Papua, have been rescued. They were assisted in evacuating Timika residents away one kilometer from the incident site.

And Timika Air Base Lieutenant Colonel (Pnb) Slamet Suhartono said the victims were assisted by the community to get out of the plane when the incident occurred. Eight victims were assisted to the location around the landing of the Indonesian Air Force's Caracal helicopter. Because the landing location and the crime scene were quite far away, the SAR team did not approach the plane and retrieve the black box. Peter, who suffered a broken leg," said Dan Airbase, quoted from Antara, Thursday, June 23. He said the number of victims who were evacuated was eight people, including the pilot.

However, until now it has not been confirmed whether their identities are the same as the names in the initial report.

And Airbase added, based on information on the ground, Susi Air with flight number PK-BVM had an incident on the way from Dumo to Timika, not the other way around.

However, certainty regarding this matter, he said, was still waiting for a report from the KNKT after checking the black box that was still on the Pilatus Porter PC-6 plane.