Recovery of QZ 8501 aircraft’s Flight Data Recorder
13 01 2015
SURABAYA, 12TH JANUARY 2015 – Entering
the sixteenth day, the SAR operations led by the National Search and
Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) Republic of Indonesia has made a breakthrough
with the recovery of QZ 8501 aircraft’s Flight Data Recorder (FDR)
at 07:11HRS LT (GMT+7) today.
BASARNAS
confirmed that the FDR was found under the plane’s wing wreckage and
has been lifted from the seafloor (up to 30 meters below surface). The
FDR will be transferred to Jakarta, and handed over to Indonesia’s
National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) for investigation.
BASARNAS reported that the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) has yet to be
located and is still being searched around the area.
In
addition, sea divers from SAR team were deployed today to obtain visual
confirmation of two large objects which are suspected to be parts of
the aircraft, approximately 4km from the location where the tail piece
was found.
BASARNAS
also assured that passengers recovery remains to be the main priority.
Local fishermen have been asked to support SAR operation on a smaller
scale. No additional recoveries were reported today.
In Surabaya, the Disaster Victim
Identification (DVI) Police Department of Republic of Indonesia (DVI
POLRI) today announced that they were able to identify 2 more remains,
identified as: David Gunawan (male) and Youvita Elisabeth (female). Both
are Indonesian citizens.
To
date, BASARNAS has confirmed to have recovered a total of 48 remains of
which 34 have been identified by DVI POLRI and 14 are still being
identified.
AirAsia
Indonesia would like to take this opportunity to urge the public
seeking progress on the search and evacuation and identification process
of QZ 8501 passengers to refer solely to official information from
BASARNAS and DVI POLRI.
You may also obtain substantiated information only from authorised AirAsia social media accounts: Facebook (www.facebook.com/AirAsia) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/AirAsia).
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