Basarnas Evakuasi 6 Jasad Korban AsiaAir, Sanggah Berita di Media Asing
Six Bodies from Doomed Jet are Recovered from the Java Sea
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
TIM pencari dan penyelamat dari Badan SAR Nasional (Basarnas) berhasil mengevakuasi enam jasad dari Laut Jawa, setelah dikonfirmasi Basarnas.
Jasad penumpang ditemukan bersama bagasi, pintu pesawat dan slide darurat di perairan sekitar 100 mil di lepas pantai Pulau Kalimantan sebelumnya hari ini, setelah tiga hari pencarian.
Basarnas mengkonfirmasi bahwa jasad dan puing-puing yang ditemukan di Laut Jawa berasal dari pesawat AirAsia QZ8501, juru bicara TNI AL menyatakan tim SAR masih terus berupaya mengevakuasi jasad korban.
Meskipun klaim sebelumnya oleh juru bicara angkatan laut bahwa 40 jasad telah ditemukan, jumlah tersebut kemudian dikoreksi oleh Basarnas, yang memastikan baru enam jasad telah ditemukan sejauh ini, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Menjelang malam di lokasi pencarian, tim Basarnas mengidentifikasi bayangan dari dasar laut yang diyakini sebagai badan pesawat, yang kedalamannya relatif dangkal 25 hingga 30 meter pada titik terdalam. Banyak jasad dari para korban diperkirakan akan masih berada di dalam pesawat.
RESCUE workers searching for the doomed AirAsia flight 8501 have recovered six bodies from the Java Sea, Indonesian search and rescue teams have confirmed.
Bodies were discovered alongside luggage, a plane door and an emergency slide in the water 100 miles off the coast of Borneo Island earlier today, following three days of searching.
Officials have confirmed that the bodies and debris found in the Java Sea off Indonesia are from flight 8501, and a naval spokesman said the rescuers remain 'very busy' retrieving the victims.
Despite an earlier claim by a navy spokesman that 40 bodies had been recovered, the figure was later corrected by the search agency Basarnas, which said that six bodies had been found so far.
Before darkness fell in the area, search teams identified a shadow that they believe to be the plane's fuselage beneath the water, which is relatively shallow at just 160 feet at its deepest point. Many of the remaining victims are thought likely to still be on board the aircraft
The Airbus A320-200 was 42 minutes into its flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore on Sunday when it vanished with 162 people on board.
