Report 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 Seribu District in north of Jakarta.
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Rescuers on Sunday collected five bags of human body parts and three bags of debris of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in the waters off the coast of Indonesian capital Jakarta, a senior official said.
“We received three bags containing the debris of the plane and five bags of human body parts,” said Operation Director of the National Search and Rescue Agency Rasman MS.
All the eight bags were carried by the navy’s KRI Kurau ship, according to the director.
This has brought the total body parts discovered by the rescuers to seven, said Xinhua news agency.
Report 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 Seribu District in 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.
Few hours after the crash commander of Trisula coast guard ship Captain EKo Surya Hadi had told a local TV that human body parts and debris of the plane were found,.
The SJ-182 flight, which was flying to Pontianak city in West Kalimantan province, crashed at around 2:40 p.m. local time (0740 GMT) after taking off from the Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta, Surya said.
The ill-fated plane of the Indonesian budget airline lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday afternoon, spokesman of the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua.
On Oct. 29, 2018, all 189 people aboard were killed after a Boeing 737 Max plane of Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta.
In December 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed into sea en route from Indonesia’s second biggest city Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard. Enditem