Joint SAR Team Bring 12 Ships, Look For Police Helicopter Pilot Captains In Manggar Waters

Illustration of helicopters/ Photo: Bitor Ekin Putra

JAKARTA - A total of 12 ships were deployed in the search for the NBO 105 P-1103 Police Helicopter Pilot Captain, AKP Arif Rahman Saleh on the sea surface of Manggar Waters, East Belitung Regency. "Today's search has 3 methods. For the search above the surface, there is an addition of 3 KRI ships now from Bakamla and Customs and Excise. So there are 12 ships on sea level," said Head of the Pangkalpinang Search and Rescue Office, I Made Oka Astawa when confirmed by VOI, Wednesday, November 30.

The search remains focused on sea level, in the sea and air monitoring carried out by the National Police. "(Search focus) Everything, three as on sea level there are 12 ships, below sea level there are 2 ships scanning and in the air using helicopters from the Police," he said. The search under the sea method used in the search for Pararel Sweep Search Pattern. The equipment and the equipment controlled is KM Quin (pottable on the fishing vessel) Pushidrosal, MBES (Multi Beam Echo Sounder), SSS (Side Scan Sonar), Magnetometer and KRI SPICA. "Then 2 other teams were developed to the south," he said. Previously, National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said as many as 600 personnel were deployed in the search for victims of the NBO 105 helicopter belonging to the Police with registration numbers P-1103. Appointed efforts to search for the combined police, and TNI, then there were Basarnas, then there were local governments, Gegana and also the community of approximately 600 people, divided into 7 regions and three points, Listyo said at Pond Cabe Air Police Airport, South Tangerang, Wednesday, November 30.