At A Depth Of 17-19 Meters, Officers Found A Wedding Dress To A Sriwijaya Air Flight Attendant Uniform

A number of items allegedly belonged to passengers and flight attendants of Sriwijaya Air aircraft in the vicinity of Male Island waters (Antara / Muhammad Zulfikar)

JAKARTA - A team of divers to search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft found a white wedding dress to a uniform during a search operation on Monday, January 11 evening.

"The findings are about two miles from the island of Laki," said the Head of the Jakarta Police Ditpolair Diversion Team, AKP I Ketut Suastika on board the Bisma 8001 Police Ship.

In addition, the dive team also found a number of clothes that were thought to belong to the Sriwijaya Air passengers. Then, there are also parts of the corpse, plane debris, buoys, money worth Rp. 250 thousand and a red bag.

He said the items were found by divers at a depth of 17 to 19 meters with the search taking about 40 minutes under the sea.

"This evidence has scattered positions. So we go around or scatter," he said.

These findings will then be taken to the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JITC) for further processing.

Previously, the Sriwijaya Air plane with registration number PK-CLC with flight number SJ-182 on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact on Saturday, January 9 at 14:40 WIB and crashed between Lancang Island and Male Island, Thousand Islands, DKI Jakarta.

The Boeing 737-500 aircraft lost contact at a position 11 nautical miles north of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang after passing an altitude of 11,000 feet and at the time of increasing its altitude at 13,000 feet.