13 Days Of Search, SJ-182 Sriwijaya Air SAR Operations Officially Closed

Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi at the JICT II Integrated Command Post (Photo: VOI / Diah Ayu Wardani)

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi announced that the SAR operation to search Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 was officially closed today, Thursday, January 21.

The search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 has been going on for 13 days. The search was started from Saturday, January 9th to January 14th. Then, it was extended to January 18 and again to January 21.

"Today is the last day of the extension of the Basarnas operation. With various considerations, we are closing the SAR operation today," Budi said at the JICT II Integrated Command Post, North Jakarta, Thursday, January 21.

Continuing, the Head of Basarnas Marshal Madya Bagus Puruhito said that the termination of the SAR operation was decided by an evaluation of the search for thirteen days and various technical considerations.

"After going through technical considerations, the victim's findings, effectiveness, several meetings with the victim's family, input from elements in the field, today I officially declare the SAR operation on the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 plane crash to be closed or terminated," said Good.

As is known, the Sriwijaya Air plane lost contact and crashed between Male Island and Lancang Island, Thousand Islands on Saturday, January 9.

Based on SAR operations from the first to the last day, the SAR team's findings totaled 324 body bags containing body parts or body parts.

Then, as many as 119 aircraft materials, with details of 68 small bags containing aircraft debris and 55 large aircraft pieces.