Sriwijaya Air SAR Operation Update: 14 Bags Of Victim's Body Parts And 3 Pieces Of Aircraft

Findings in SAR operations related to the crash of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane at the Tanjung Priok JICT2 Post (Diah Ayu / VOI)

JAKARTA - Basarnas Operations Director, Brigadier General Rasman, said the search for the joint SAR team on the day found 17 finds with 14 body bags containing the victim's body parts and 3 aircraft materials.

"The results for today's search and rescue activities are joint divers or joint SAR have carried out dives with the results of obtaining 14 body parts bags, three small pieces of fuselage, while the large pieces are zero," said Rasman at the JICT Integrated Command Post. II, North Jakarta, Tuesday, January 19.

With this addition, the total findings of the SAR team until the eleventh day at 20.30 WIB were 324 body bags containing body parts. Then, there are 115 aircraft materials, with details of 63 small bags containing aircraft debris and 55 large aircraft pieces.

Currently, the SAR team has also found a black box type flight data recorder (FDR) and a black box cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shell. Meanwhile, CVR core memory has not been found.

Rasman said that the operation to find victims and materials for the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane in the morning was hampered by the harsh weather. Strong winds around the waters of the Thousand Islands cause high waves to appear. Thus, making it difficult for the SAR team to search.

"This morning the weather conditions are very unfriendly. It is very unfavorable for diving. The last data I received in the field, wave height of 1.5 meters to 2.5 meters with wind speeds of around 31 knots," said Rasman.

Rasman said the high wave conditions with strong winds would endanger the safety of the diver team conducting searches under the sea.

Then, a search was carried out during the day. The joint SAR team conducted an operation by shrinking the search area from yesterday's search. Reduction of this area is carried out by a team of divers on a search below sea level.

Rasman said the reason the SAR team reduced the search sector was due to the increasing number of search results being found. Thus, there are a number of points in the last known position (LKP) or the location of the crash that has been cleared of victims and material.