Search for Sriwijaya Air Black Box Obstructed by Plane Debris on the Seabed

Suara.com – The Search and Rescue Team (SAR) of the Indonesian Navy conveyed that the solid underwater debris was an obstacle to finding the black box of the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 aircraft that crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands Regency, DKI Jakarta.

“The volume of the aircraft is so large and the ‘impact’ on the sea surface is so great that the goods are still being piled up by the shards themselves,” said Sriwijaya Air 182 Search and Rescue Marine Task Force Commander (Dansatgasla Ops), Admiral Yayan Sofyan at JICT II Pier. Tanjung Priok Jakarta, Monday (11/1/2021) night.

The plan, he continued on Tuesday, (12/1/2021) today, the SAR operation will parse the aircraft material to facilitate the search for the plane’s black box.

“The decomposition was submerged by Navy diving, be it Denjaka, Kopaskal, Dislambair. Then immersed one by one the blocks were opened and brought to the surface,” he said as reported. Among.

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He added that the black box emission signal was leading to one location. The SAR operations team heard the ping sound twice around the search location.

“Divers bring the ping locator, he listens to. For example, if he is listening there, it becomes more real. Yesterday we found two pings and they were localized. This does not mean that the black box has been found but has been localized,” he said.

The Sriwijaya Air plane with registration number PK-CLC with flight number SJ-182 on the Jakarta-Pontianak route lost contact on Saturday (9/1) at 14:40 WIB and crashed between Lancang Island and Male Island, Thousand Islands, DKI Jakarta.

The Boeing 737-500 aircraft lost contact at a position 11 nautical miles north of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang after passing an altitude of 11,000 feet and while increasing its altitude at 13,000 feet.

The plane took off from Soekarno Hatta Airport at 14.36 WIB. The schedule is delayed from the previous flight schedule at 13.35 WIB. Departure delays due to weather factors.

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Based on manifest data, the aircraft produced in 1994 carried 62 people consisting of 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Of these, 40 adults, seven children, three babies. Meanwhile, the 12 crew consists of six active crews and six extra crews.