Kapten Iriyanto Dirindukan Putrinya: "Papa, Segeralah Pulang"
Daughter of Missing AirAsia Captain Posted Message: "Papa, Please Come Home"
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PUTRI KAPTEN pilot AirAsia yang hilang menyampaikan permohonan penuh emosional hari ini, agar ayahnya segera pulang, dalam 'curhat' itu ia mengatakan: "Saya ingin papa pulang"
Kapten Iriyanto menghilang dalam kabut tebal antara Indonesia dan Singapura saat mengemudikan pesawat QZ8501 yang mengangkut 162 penumpang, kemarin pagi.
Foto sang pilot diposting pada media sosial oleh putrinya yang berusia 22 tahun, Angela Ranastianis dengan pesan memilukan: "Papa, segeralah pulang, saya ingin papa pulang. Kembalikan segera papa saya."
Ayah Kapten Iriyanto mengatakan terakhir kali ia melihat putranya ketika menghadiri pemakaman anaknya yang lain yang meninggal karena diabetes, pekan lalu.
Suwarto kepada BBC seperti dikutip MailOnline berharap dia akan melihat putranya lagi, tapi menerima dengan ikhlas apabila Tuhan berkehendak lain.
Di rumah Iryanto di Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, para tetangga, kerabat dan teman-teman berkumpul untuk berdoa dan membaca Quran untuk mendukung keluarga yang sedang berduka ini.
Sesekali terdengar isak tangis tertahan, mereka berkumpul di ruang keluarga menyaksikan tiga tivi layar lebar untuk memantau perkembangan pencarian pesawat yang hilang.
"Dia orang yang baik. Itulah mengapa warga di sini menunjuknya sebagai ketua RT sejak dua tahun terakhir," kata Bagianto Djoyonegoro, teman dan tetangga, seraya menambahkan bahwa meskipun sibuk dengan pekerjaannya, Iryanto selalu sangat aktif bermasyarakat dan memperhatikan kebutuhan orang di sekelilingnya.
Keponakan Cpt Iriyanto mengatakan bahwa pamannya, yang dikaruniai dua anak, adalah 'orang yang sangat peduli'.
Ponakannya bilang: "Dia selalu membantu orang karena ia adalah orang yang sangat peduli. Jika ada kerabat sakit yang membutuhkan bantuan dan bahkan uang, paman saya akan datang membantu."
"Jika ada masalah uang dalam keluarga, ia pasti akan membantu."
Sang kapten dikenal sebagai pilot berpengalaman di TNI AU yang menerbangkan pesawat jet tempur F-16 sebelum menjadi pilot maskapai penerbangan komersial.
Maskapai AirAsia mengatakan sang kapten berpengalaman lebih dari 20.000 jam terbang, dan 6.100 jam terbang di antaranya menerbangkan pesawat Airbus 320 milik AirAsia.
THE DAUGHTER of the missing AirAsia captain today made an emotional plea for her father to come home, telling him: 'I still need you'.
Captain Iriyanto disappeared in airspace thick with storm clouds between Indonesia and Singapore while piloting Flight 8501 with 162 people on board yesterday.
His picture was posted on social media by his 22-year-old daughter Angela Ranastianis with the heartbreaking message: 'Papa, please come home, I still need you. Bring back my papa.'
Cpt Iriyanto's father said the last time he saw his son was at the funeral of his other son who died of diabetes last week.
Suwarto, who has only one name, told the BBC he hoped he would see his son again, but accepted it would be God's will if he didn't.
At Iryanto's house in the East Java town of Sidoarjo, neighbours, relatives and friends gathered to pray and recite the Quran to support the distraught family.
Their desperate cries were so loud, they could sometimes be heard outside where three LCD televisions had been set up to monitor search developments.
'He is a good man. That's why people here appointed him as our neighbourhood chief for the last two years,' said Bagianto Djoyonegoro, a friend and neighbour, adding that despite being busy with his job, Iryanto was always very active in the community and attentive to the needs of the people around him.
Cpt Iriyanto's nephew told Indonesian news outlet Detik.com his uncle, who is married with two young children, was 'a very caring person'.
He said: 'He is always helping people because he is a very caring person. If there is a sick relative who needed help and even money, my uncle would be there.
'If there are money problems in the family, he would surely help.'
Many recalled him as an experienced Air Force pilot who flew F-16 fighter jets before becoming a commercial airline pilot.
AirAsia said the captain had more than 20,000 flying hours, of which 6,100 were with AirAisa on the Airbus 320.
