This Is The Location Of The Crash Of A Smart Air Cargo Plane In Binuang, There Are Signs Of Smoke Allegedly Made By Crews

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TARAKAN - A joint team to search for the crash of the pioneer plane PC-6 Pilatus Porter PK-SNE, managed to find the crash site belonging to the Smart Aviation airline.

It is suspected that the distance from the location where the debris was found was 6.11 nautical miles or about 9 kilometers from the Binuang village airport, Central Krayan District, Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan (Kaltara).

The Commander of the Airbase (Danlanud) Anang Busra, Colonel Pnb Bambang Sudewo revealed, during the search process on the second day, the Smart Aviation airline flew a PC-6 aircraft to comb the coordinates suspected of being the location of the plane crash that lost contact on Friday, March 8, after taking off from Juata Tarakan International Airport to Binuang Village, Nunukan.

The crash site was found by a Smart Aviation airline crew, whose search also uses a Pilatus PC-6 aircraft registered with PK SND," said Colonel Pnb Bambang Sudewo, Saturday, March 9.

In addition to weather constraints, Bambang continued, the search process was carried out above an altitude of 5,000 feet. The evacuation process will resume on Sunday, March 10.

"The location found signs of smoke, which we hope is a sign from the crew, previously from the observations of the team 1x24 hours in the area there was no smoke. It seems that smoke is sourced from what point the team saw," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Tarakan Basarnas Office, Syahril, confirmed that the search team had found the location of the plane's debris.

"The search team using the PK-SND aircraft belonging to the Smart Aviation airline has landed at Malianu Airport, with the results of finding aircraft debris debris and flames such as counts at coordinates 3°43'45.80" N115°56'54.45"E," explained Syahril.

"It is suspected that the fire was made by the surviving victim to give a sign," he continued.

From the results of the coordination meeting, it was confirmed that the PK-SNE object had been found to carry out a dorlog in the form of survival kits and food for PK-SNE victims using helicopters (HA-5224).

"Due to rainy conditions and fog, HA-5224 has landed again at Malinau Airport and was unable to carry out a dorlog at the PK-SNE location, the evacuation process will resume on Sunday," he concluded.