Pilot TNI AU Lihat Tiga Jasad Mengapung di Laut
Three Bodies of AirAsia`s Victom Spotted Floating in Karimata Strait
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Palangka Raya (B2B) - Pilot CN 295 TNI Angkatan Udara (AU) Mayor Penerbang Setiawan mengungkapkan telah melihat tiga jenazah penumpang AirAsia QZ 8501 mengapung di laut Karimata.
"Kondisi tubuh masih terlihat utuh namun untuk jenis kelaminnya belum dapat dipastikan," katanya di Lapangan Udara (Lanud) Iskandar Pangkalan Bun, Minggu (4//1).
Pesawat Seahawk ALT 500FT dan kapal USS Sampson milik Amerika Serikat bersama Kapal JS Onami milik Jepang sedang mencoba untuk melakukan evakuasi.
"Sampai sekarang tiga jenazah itu belum dapat dievakuasi. Kami belum tahu apakah jenazah itu akan diangkut ke kapal USS Sampson atau JS Onami," ujarnya.
Setelah delapan hari pencarian pesawat AirAsia QZ 8501, sebanyak 33 jenazah telah ditemukan. Sejumlah 30 di antaranya telah dibawa ke Surabaya.
Pesawat AirAsia rute Surabaya-Singapura itu jatuh, Minggu (28/12). Pesawat membawa 155 penumpang dan 7 kru. (Ant)
Palangka Raya (B2B) - Major Setiawan, a pilot of the Indonesian Air Forces CN295 aircraft spotted three bodies of AirAsia flight QZ8501s victims, floating in Karimata Strait on Sunday.
The three bodies were seen clearly but it was not known whether they were men or women, Major Setiawan said in Iskandar Air Force Base, Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan Province, Sunday.
The three corpses would be evacuated by either USS Samspon or Japanese Ship Onami, he said.
Up to Saturday, a total of 30 bodies have been found in Java Sea which is near Karimata Strait, some 95 Nautical miles from Pangkalan Bun.
The AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared en route from Surabaya to Singapore, on Dec. 28, 2014, with 162 people aboard, consisting of 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one British, one Singaporean, a French and one Malaysian.
The ill-fated planes fuselage is still missing.
The hunt for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 moved into a new phase on Sunday with the deployment of a pinger locator to find the black box.
