Jakarta – The National Search and Rescue Firm (Basarnas) verified that the operation to search for victims and wreckage of the ill-fated Sriwijaya Air SJ182 airplane on Thursday included 268 scuba divers.
The scuba divers are focused on 6 spots of the area where the aircraft crashed into the waters between Laki Island and Lancang Island, Pulau Seribu District, 6 days earlier, Operation Director of Basarnas Brigadier General Rasman specified during a press conference at the JICT 2 Pier, Tanjung Priok, here on Thursday.
The search operation focused on all things, consisting of the victims’ remains and limbs, cockpit voice recorder (CVR), and airplane particles.
” Hence, we have actually divided (the divers) into a number of teams tasked with looking specifically for particles, victims, and CVR. This system in the plan is anticipated to maximize search efforts,” he mentioned.
Browse efforts are conducted both by air and sea, specifically below sea level.
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Aerial search is likewise likely to be broadened by optimizing searches on beaches and around large islands.
” We also thereafter continue to perform searches on the surface,” he specified.
Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Commission (KNKT) revealed earlier that the research vessel Baruna Jaya had actually been deployed for the operation to recover the black boxes of the crashed Boeing 737-500 jet.
Around 4: 30 p.m. regional time on Tuesday, the airplane’s flight information recorder was retrieved by Navy divers from the seabed. It was found lying some 23 meters below the water surface.
The FDR device of the airplane, bring 50 travelers and 12 team members on board when it crashed into the ocean on January 9, 2021, was turned over to the KNKT.
The Boeing 737-500, with 62 individuals aboard, crashed last Saturday, simply 4 minutes after removing from the Soekarno International Airport, near Jakarta, on its method to Pontianak, West Kalimantan.
It was raining greatly when the aircraft plunged into the Java Sea near Jakarta. The aircraft’s departure had actually been postponed for about an hour owing to bad weather condition.
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