Indonesia halts search for victims of Sriwijaya Air crash
By Yuddy Cahya BudimanPosted on
Indonesian navy personnel carry a body bag on the last day of search and rescue operation for Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the Java sea, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities said on Thursday the search for victims of a plane crash that killed all 62 people on board had been halted, but the hunt would continue for the Sriwijaya Air jet’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
“Search operations have been closed, but we will continue to search for the CVR,” said Bagus Puruhito, who heads the country’s search and rescue agency.
He told reporters that the rescue team had collected more than 324 bags of body parts and plane parts.
Flight SJ 182 crashed into the Java Sea on Jan. 9 four minutes after take-off from Jakarta.
Divers last week retrieved from the seabed the other so-called black box, the flight data recorder, of the 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 jet.
The Sriwijaya crash was the biggest airline disaster in Indonesia since October 2018, when 189 people were killed onboard a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX that also plunged into the Java Sea soon after take-off.
(Reporting by Yuddy Cahya; Writing by Fanny Potkin; Editing by Martin Petty)
Officers of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee inspect the debris of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the Java Sea, on the last day of its search and rescue operation, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
Officers of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee inspect the debris of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the Java Sea, on the last day of its search and rescue operation, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
A member of Indonesia’s rescue personnel observes the debris of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the Java Sea, at the last day of the search and rescue operation, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
An officer of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee takes pictures of the remains of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the Java Sea, on the last day of its search and rescue operation, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
