Black Box Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Aircraft Still Wanted, This Is Explanation From Kabasarnas

SAR joint search operation for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 (DOK. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The black box or black box of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft is still being sought by the joint SAR team. However, SAR operations remain focused on finding victims of the crash of the Jakarta-Pontianak route that crashed in the Thousand Islands.

"First, I remind you that the SAR operation will focus on the victims. Regarding the black box material, we are also looking for something below, indeed we cannot say that yesterday there we continue to visit there (black box) there. Moreover, yesterday's weather conditions were heavy rain and storms. What is clear is that today we all carry out optimum efforts to carry out the search, once again focusing on the victims without reducing attention to other things, "said Kabasarnas Bagus Puruhito to reporters at the main post for the search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft at JICT2, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Monday, January 11.

The results of the search operation for the joint SAR team today collected 27 body bags and 22 bags containing materials related to the downing of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft. The joint SAR team gathered in today's search operations.

"Lastly, I reported that there were 18 body bags that were part of the victim's body, today we got 27 bags. Today we get 27 body bags containing human remains," said Kabasarnas.

Search operation today went smoothly with the weather support. The search is focused on victims, aircraft materials including black boxes (black box).

running safely and smoothly the weather is quite supportive and as I said before, the focus of sar operation is focused on the evacuation of victims and simltan followed by the search for black box material and others.

Narrowed Black Box Search Mapping

Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono said the mapping of the black box signal area of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft had been minimized.

Yudo said, currently the radar for locating the black box is 140x100 meters, using a sonar transmitter or multibeam Echosounder since the beginning of the mapping.

"From the results of the multibeam, we have mapped that there is only one triangle area, namely 140 x 100 meters. Hopefully, with this (area) divers will be more focused," said Yudo on the KRI Rigel-933, Monday, January 11.

In the search for the black box, a joint team from Basarnas, TNI, Polri, and a number of volunteers dispatched divers during the day. Then in the afternoon, the Indonesian Navy will deploy a Remote Operator Vehicle or ROV to look for a Black Box belonging to Sriwijaya SJ-182.

"For the ROV, because there are still many divers during the day, it is impossible to lower it because later the cable will hit the diver. Once the diver rested, we lowered the ROV to see underwater in three dimensions," said Yudo.

Even though he has 160 divers consisting of a number of elements to look for the black box which is estimated to be 16 meters underwater, Yudo admits that it is not easy in the search process. This is because it is suspected that the black box was covered by plane debris.

"My experience in leading Lion Air SAR also takes time because there are still a lot of debris there. Moreover, it's only been two days and the debris that has been found is still small and we will continue to take it because there are still a lot of debris," he said.