Avsec Has Not Confirmed The Original Identities Of 2 Sriwijaya Passengers Who Use Other People's IDs

Sriwijaya Air aircraft. (Photo: Doc. Sriwijaya Air)

JAKARTA - Avitation Security (Avsec) Soekarno-Hatta Airport will carry out an internal investigation regarding 2 passengers of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane who used someone else's identity card (KTP).

"So Sriwijaya is still carrying out an internal investigation, we are also the same. We are currently investigating. The results will be discussed together with Sriwijaya, with (family, ed) victims and others," said Avsec Senior Manager of Soetta Airport, Oka. Setiawan when contacted by reporters, Monday, January 11.

For investigative purposes, he continued, his party had examined 3 people. In the future, it is not impossible that the number of parties being examined will increase.

"Because we are looking for information as much as possible. Including Sriwijaya internally, it is also conducting an internal investigation of the check-in officers, ground handling officers, and everything, which is related," he said.

Oka said that his party still did not know the real identities of the two passengers on the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane. Given, these two people traveled under the names Felix Wenggo and Sarah Beatrice Alomau.

"From the manifest, the names are Felix and Sarah, the two names are used to fly. So we do not know whose name flies," he said.

"We are still investigating internally if what is circulating on social media is Sarah's confession, the one who is said to be getting married," he added.

Previously reported, the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route had lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng on Saturday, January 9, 2020. The plane is confirmed to have crashed between Male Island and Lancang Island. Thousand Islands.

The plane carried 62 people, including 12 crew members and 50 passengers. The 50 passengers consisted of 40 adult passengers, seven children and three babies.