SAR TNI AL: Aircraft Debris Is A Barrier To The Search For Black Box Sriwijaya Air SJ-182

Marines in the SAR operation of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft in the Thousand Islands (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Search and Rescue Team (SAR) of the Indonesian Navy said that underwater debris was an obstacle to finding the black box of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands Regency, DKI Jakarta.

"The volume of the aircraft is so large and the 'impact' on the sea surface is so great that the goods are still being piled up by the shards themselves," said Sriwijaya Air 182 Search and Rescue Marine Task Force Commander (Dansatgasla Ops), Admiral Yayan Sofyan at JICT II Pier. Tanjung Priok Jakarta was quoted by Antara, Monday, January 11 evening.

The plan was for the SAR operation to unravel the plane's material on Tuesday, January 12 to facilitate the search for the plane's black box.

"Decomposition was immersed by the Navy's dives, be it Denjaka, Kopaskal, Dislambair. Then dived one by one the opened chunks were brought to the surface," he explained.

Yayan said that the black box's signal was already leading to one location. The SAR operation team heard the ping sound twice around the location of the search. "The diver brought the ping locator, he listened to it. For example, heard there, it became more real. Yesterday we found two pings and they were localized. This does not mean that the black box has been found. but it has been localized, "he said.

The Sriwijaya Air plane with registration number PK-CLC with flight number SJ-182 on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact on Saturday (9/1) 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.

The plane took off from Soekarno Hatta Airport at 14.36 WIB. The schedule is delayed from the previous flight schedule at 13.35 WIB. Departure delay due to weather factors.

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.