Black Box Still Searching, These Are Recent Findings Of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 Aircraft

Evacuation of Sriwijaya AIr SJ 182 Aircraft (Photo: Diah / VOI)

JAKARTA - Today is entering the fourth day for a joint search team from Basarnas, TNI, Polri, and a number of volunteers to search for victims and properties of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft.

The Head of the National Search and Relief Agency (Basarnas) Air Marshal Bagus Puruhito said that the search for victims and materials for the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft would still be continued.

Bagus said, on the fourth day of the search, the joint search team will expand the search area. Search was carried out on the surface of the ship along with dives.

"We plan to stay focused on carrying out the evacuation of the search for victims and the search for other materials. As well as the area we expand on the surface by ship, under the surface by diving or by using the ship's sonar," said Bagus at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, North Jakarta, Monday, 11 January night.

Bagus said, the team also continues to look for black boxes or black boxes that have yet to be found. Black Box is important. This is because the equipment consisting of the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) is expected to solve the mystery of the crash of the plane flying from Jakarta to Pontianak.

In the search for the black box, the joint team from Basarnas, TNI, Polri, and a number of volunteers dispatched divers during the day, assisted with location mapping. 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.

Yesterday, the mapping of the black box signal area was narrowed down. Currently the black box location search radar is 140x100 meters, using a sonar transmitter or multibeam Echosounder since the beginning of the mapping.

"We also continue to search for black box material," he said.

Black box search constraints

Basarnas Head Marshal Madya TNI Bagus Puruhito admitted that the process of finding black boxes is not easy. He said, the movement of the water flow had the potential to move the black box from the location where the signal had originally been caught.

"Looking for something below, we cannot say it is there, we continue to visit it again, it is still there. Especially with the heavy rain and storms that are quite strong in the area," said Bagus.

The Indonesian Navy SAR Team 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 SAR Operations Marine Task Force Commander (Dansatgasla Ops) Sriwijaya Air 182, Admiral Yayan Sofyan.

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.

Findings so far

As of Monday, 11 July evening, 27 body bags and 22 bags containing materials related to the downing of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft were collected by the joint SAR team in today's search operations.

"There are 18 body bags that are part of the victim's body, today we get 27 bags, today we get 27 body bags containing human remains," explained Bagus.

When there is a discovery of plane debris, Basarnas will hand it over to the National Transportation Safety Committee. Meanwhile, pieces of the victim's body or property were handed over to the Police DVI team for identification.