KNKT Has Recorded Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Pilot With ATC, Already Coordinated With The US

Debris and properties recovered from the search operation for the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft at JICT2, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) has pocketed the recording of a Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 pilot with an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) officer.

"The team has also sent 2 people to collect data at Airnav Indonesia and have collected the recordings and transcripts of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic controllers. The team has also succeeded in obtaining raw data on aircraft movement radar data that will be studied, the team has interviewed air traffic officers in charge of controlling the flight that had an accident, "said the Head of the NTSC Aviation Ethics Sub Committee, Nurcahyo Utomo quoted from Metro TV broadcast, Monday, 11 January early morning.

Nurcahyo explained that the NTSC team was deployed in the process of investigating the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 accident on the Jakarta-Pontianak route. There are a number of aircraft instruments that the NTSC has examined the findings of the joint SAR operation.

"The NTSC team at JICT has received several components from Basarnas, identified several aircraft instruments, namely the GPWS (Ground Proximity Warning System), radio Altimeter, emergency launching devices which will be identified from which side door because there are 4 on the plane and part of the aircraft in general. from the bottom of the tail, "he continued.

In addition, the KNKT has received offers of assistance from the Singapore authorities in searching for black boxes.

"And coordinating with the American authorities NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and Michael Hoff has been appointed who will be the accredited representative in the investigation of this aircraft accident," said NTSC.

The Sriwijaya Air plane registered number PK-CLC SJ 182 for the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact on Saturday, January 9 at around 14:40 WIB and crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands between Lancang Island and Laki Island.

Based on manifest data, the aircraft produced in 1994 carried 62 people consisting of 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Of these, 40 adults, seven children, three babies. Meanwhile, the 12 crew consists of six active crews and six extra crews.

Previously, Kabasarnas confirmed that the search for victims and black box operations of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 lasted 24 hours. For tomorrow, the search will expand to the coast.

Meanwhile, 306 personnel in the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, Jakarta, were deployed to identify victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 crash.

"At the National Police Hospital, a DVI team of 306 personnel has worked, this consists of related agencies," said Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 10.

Apart from the National Police, the personnel of the DVI team who will begin to identify the bodies of the victims on Monday, January 11, are from the TNI, the Ministry of Health and the Indonesian Forensic Doctors Association.

Rusdi Hartono said that the DVI team will identify the seven body bags that have been received by the National Police Hospital, supported by "ante mortem" data that has been received.

"All work together at the National Police Hospital to identify the bodies of the victims of the plane crash," said Rusdi Hartono.

The National Police appealed to the families of the victims to immediately provide data to the DVI team, in the form of certificates, family cards and other documents to assist identification.

"Any information is very helpful for the DVI team to identify the bodies who were victims of the accident," said Rusdi Hartono.