Search For Victims Of Sriwijaya Air Today Collects 17 Body Bags

Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 (VOI) SAR Operation

JAKARTA - Today's search for victims of Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 has found 17 body bags. In addition, the joint team also collected several bags containing aircraft debris and property.

"From the notes given to me, it was written that what was handed over to us were 17 bags of body parts, 3 bags of small debris, then 1 bag of property," said Basarnas Operations Director Brigadier General TNI Rasman MS to reporters, Saturday, January 16.

For one bag of property, said Rasman, it contains several documents and clothes. Later on, all the body bags and trays will be taken to the National Police Hospital for identification.

"(One) bag of property in the form of documents and clothes were handed over to us for further identification," he said.

In the previous search, the joint team managed to collect 33 body bags. In addition, also collected 17 bags containing plane pieces.

"Today we get 33 body bags, 6 bags of small parts of the plane and 11 large pieces of the fuselage. So that the total we have obtained during these 7 days is 272 body bags of 46 bags of the victim's body parts. Big pieces of the plane are 50 pieces, ”said Kabasarnas Bagus Puruhito at a press conference at the main post of JICT2, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Friday, January 15.

The Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact in the Thousand Islands shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng on Saturday, January 9, 2020. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the plane crashed between Male Island and Lancang Island. , The Thousand Islands.

In total, 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.

Furthermore, the National Police is currently opening antiemortem posts in two different places, namely in Pontianak and at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital.

The post at the Police Hospital operates 24 hours. So, the families of passengers who want to provide specific data or information related to the passengers of the unlucky plane can come to the post.