AirAsia QZ8501 Ditemukan, Jenazah dan Serpihan Terapung di Area Pencarian
Bodies of Passengers Spotted Floating in Sea Alongside Plane Door
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
JENAZAH, bagasi, pintu pesawat dan slide darurat diyakini berasal dari puing-puing pesawat AirAsia QZ8501 yang hilang, dilaporkan telah ditemukan oleh tim dari Badan SAR Nasional (Basarnas).
Laporan dari tim SAR menyatakan sebanyak 10 item diyakini telah ditemukan - termasuk benda yang menyerupai pelampung penyelamat, jaket dan tabung panjang berwarna oranye.
Dilaporkan pula ditemukan jenazah dari ´beberapa korban´ yang berada di antara puing-puing yang ditemukan.
Letnan Dua Tri Wibowo, yang berada di pesawat Hercules dalam operasi pencarian, mengatakan setidaknya satu jenazah terlihat.
´Jenazah tampak membengkak," kata Letnan Wibowo, menurut Reuters, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Panglima Komando Operasi Angkatan Udara I (Pangkoopsau) Marsekal Muda TNI Agus Dwi Putranto menyatakan hari ini di Surabaya tim pencari diperkirakan telah menemukan lokasi pesawat tersebut diyakini telah jatuh.
Ditampilkan foto dari 10 objek besar dan sejumlah benda kecil berwarna putih, benda tak dikenal, Agus mengatakan item terlihat sekitar 10 km dari lokasi dimana pesawat terlihat terakhir kali pada radar.
Dia mengatakan ada keyakinan lokasi pesawat itu kini telah ditemukan.
Tidak ada laporan ada penumpang yang selamat, meskipun adanya pelampung penyelamat memberi harapan adanya penumpang yang selamat dari kecelakaan tersebut.
Agus mengatakan foto-foto itu harus dipelajari secara rinci, namun para pejabat menyatakan keyakinan mereka semakin kuat bahwa itu berasal dari puing-puing pesawat.
Penemuan tersebut menyebabkan konsentrasi meningkat dari pesawat terbang dan kapal di daerah pencarian untuk mencari kemungkinan ada penumpang yang selamat.
"Mari kita berdoa semoga puing-puing tersebut adalah bagian dari pesawat yang dicari," kata Agus.
Seorang fotografer AFP pada pesawat yang sama milik TNI AU mengatakan ia melihat benda menyerupai pelampung penyelamat, jaket pelampung dan tabung oranye panjang.
BODIES, luggage, a plane door and emergency slide are believed to be among the debris from missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, which has reportedly been spotted by search teams.
Reports from crews suggest as many as 10 items may have been located - including what might be a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes.
There are also reports bodies of ´several victims´ were also among the debris found.
First Lieutenant Tri Wibowo, who was on board a Hercules aircraft during the operation, told Kompas.com there was at least one body sighted.
´The body seemed bloated,´ First Lieutenant Wibowo said, according to Reuters.
Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto announced on Tuesday in Surabaya searchers may have found the site where the flight is believed to have downed.
Displaying photos of 10 large objects and a number of smaller white-coloured, still unidentified objects, Mr Agus said the items were seen about 10km from the location where the aircraft was last logged on radar.
He said there was confidence the location of the aircraft had now been found.
There were no immediate reports of any survivors, although the presence of a life raft might raise hopes people survived the crash.
Mr Agus said the photographs would have to be studied in detail, but officials said they were growing increasingly confident the debris was from the aircraft.
The discovery of the items has led to an increased concentration of aircraft and ships in the area amid faint hopes there might be survivors.
´Let´s pray that those objects are what we are really trying to find,´ said Mr Agus.
An AFP photographer on the same air force flight said he had seen objects resembling a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes.
