Terrifying record of crashed jet surfaces
parts have been found off the shore of Karawang, east of Jakarta.
An eyewitness at the crash site, saw teams of divers enter the slightly choppy water from six inflatable boats.
“The visibility is not good as it’s very overcast,” a special forces officer said, noting the dive team had started just after dawn and been down to a depth of 35 metres. Underwater footage released by the national search and rescue agency showed relatively poor visibility. In all, 35 vessels are helping to search.
Yusuf Latif, the spokesman of the search and rescue agency, had said on Monday finding survivors “would be a miracle”, judging by the condition of recovered debris and body parts.
Lion Air said human remains were collected in 24 body bags after sweeps of the site. Jakarta, Oct. 30: Relatives numbed by grief gave samples for DNA tests to help identify victims of Lion Air plane crash that killed 189 people in Indonesia, as accounts emerged on Tuesday of problems on the jet’s previous flight including rapid descents that terrified passengers.
Hundreds of rescue personnel searched the sea where the plane crashed northeast of Jakarta, sending 26 body bags to identification experts, while the airline flew dozens of grieving relatives to the country’s capital, Jakarta.
The two- month- old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet crashed into the Java Sea early Monday, just 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta for an island off Sumatra. Its pilot requested clearance to return to the airport just 2- 3 minutes after takeoff, indicating a problem, though the cause is still baffling.
Aircraft debris and personal belongings including ID cards, clothing and bags found scattered in the sea were spread out on tarps at a port in north Jakarta and sorted into evidence bags. The chief of the police’s medical unit, Arthur Tampi, said it has received dozens of body parts for identification.
The disaster has reignited concerns about safety in Indonesia’s fastgrowing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and US blacklists.