Rescuers collect five bags of human body parts from Indonesian plane crash site

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Rescuers on Sunday collected five bags of human body parts and three bags of debris of the Sriwijaya Airplane that crashed in the waters off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a senior official said.
“We received three bags containing the debris of the plane and five bags of human body parts,” Operation Director of the National Search and Rescue Agency Rasman MS said.
All the eight bags were carried by the navy’s KRI Kurau ship, according to the director.

The Boeing 737-500 aircraft, flying from the capital Jakarta to Pontianak city in West Kalimantan province on Saturday afternoon, crashed into the Java Sea off Seribu District in the north of Jakarta.
It was carrying 50 passengers, including seven children and three babies, and 12 crew members.
The body parts would be handed to the police’s DVI (disaster victims identification) unit for identification and the debris would be sent to the National Transport Safety Committee for analysis, according to the agency.
The search and rescue operation for the victims and the wreckage of the plane is still underway, it said.

Indonesia’s crashed plane likely ruptured when hitting waters: Chief investigator

Head of Indonesia‘s National Transportation Safety Committee Soerjanto Tjahjono said on Monday that the Sriwijaya Airplane with 62 people on board that crashed into waters off Jakarta on Saturday might break apart when hitting waters.
“The plane was possibly ruptured when it hit the waters. This indicates that the plane remained intact in the air and it did not explode,” Tjahjono told Xinhua.
He said most pieces of the debris are in small parts and not scattered far away.

“All pieces of the debris are located in one area only,” said Tjahjono.
Rescuers are attempting to find the two black boxes of the plane, and signals of the devices have been caught clearly, Operation Director of the Search and Rescue Agency Rasman MS said.
The Boeing 737-500 aircraft, flying from the capital Jakarta to Pontianak city in West Kalimantan province on Saturday afternoon, crashed into the Java Sea off the Seribu District in north of Jakarta.
It was carrying 50 passengers, including seven children and three babies, and 12 crew members. (ANI/Xinhua)