Lima Jasad Ditemukan Masih Kenakan Sabuk Pengaman
Bodies of Five Passengers Found Belted to Their Seats
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
MAYAT LIMA penumpang pesawat naas AirAsia Flight QZ8501 ditemukan masih dalam kondisi mengenakan sabuk pengaman di tempat duduk mereka di kabin pesawat.
Mayat-mayat itu ditemukan di Laut Jawa dekat Kalimantan oleh kapal perang fregat KRI Bung Tomo, lima hari setelah Airbus 320-200 jatuh saat terbang antara Surabaya, Indonesia ke Singapura.
Pesawat naas itu membawa 155 penumpang dan tujuh awak namun sampai saat ini baru 30 jasad yang berhasil dievakuasi, termasuk seorang pramugari yang masih mengenakan seragam merah AirAsiadalam, telah ditemukan.
Komandan KRI Bung Tomo Kolonel Laut (P) Yayan Sofiyan mengatakan kepada MetroTV bahwa krunya berhasil mengevakuasi tujuh mayat dari perairan berombak pada Jumat, dan lima jasad masih mengenakan sabuk pengaman di kursi mereka saat ditemukan, seperti dilansir DailyMirror.
Pesawat naas tersebut ditemukan terbalik di dasar laut pada Selasa pekan lalu.
Pesawat, yang dideteksi oleh sonar, dikabarkan kondisinya masih utuh sekitar 30 meter di bawah laut.
Manifes QZ8501 menyebutkan 155 penumpangnya warga Indonesia, tiga warga Korea Selatan, dan satu orang masing-masing dari Singapura, Malaysia dan Inggris.
Pesawat kehilangan kontak dengan kontrol lalu lintas udara di Jakarta pada 06:24, 40 menit setelah mengudara.
Ada cuaca buruk di Laut Jawa pada saat itu. Namun penyebab kecelakaan itu belum diketahui.
THE BODIES of five passengers on doomed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have been found still belted to their seats.
The corpses were recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo by the Indonesian Navy frigate Bung Tomo, five days after the Airbus 320-200 crashed while flying between Surabaya, Indonesia and Singapore.
The aircraft was carrying 155 passengers and seven crew but to date only 30 bodies, including a flight attendant in her red AirAsia uniform, have been recovered.
Bung Tomo´s commader Colonel Yayan Sofiyan told MetroTV his crew had managed to pull seven bodies from the choppy waters on Friday, with five still fastened in their seats.
The crashed jet was found upside down on the sea bed on Tuesday.
The plane, located by sonar, was said to be largely intact about 100 feet down.
On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain.
The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control in Jakarta at 6.24 am, 40 minutes into its journey.
There was bad weather in the Java Sea at the time. The cause of the crash has yet to be established.
