Ship Baruna Jaya I of the
Marine Survey Technology of the Indonesia Research and Technology Agency has
detected signals from the suspected black box of Lion Air JT610 plane, said
head of the agency M. Ilyas on October 31.
Members of
Indonesian Navy search for victims of the Lion Air JT610 plane (Photo: AFP/VNA)
The airplane crashed into the sea off
Karawang in Indonesia's West Java province in the morning of October 29.
M. Ilyas added that three objects were also detected around the ship, strongly
believed to be related to the plane's fuselage and black box.
The passenger jet, a Boeing 737 Max 8 coded JT610, was en route from Jakarta to
Pangkal Pinang on Bangka Island, carrying 189 people onboard. It lost contact
with the air traffic control just 13 minutes after takeoff.
Data showed that the plane might have crashed into the sea from the height of
over 1,000 m
and a speed of about 640 km
per hour. It is likely there were no survivors from the accident.
Indonesia’s Port of Tanjung Priok has zoned off an area for
a crisis management centre following the accident. During the past two days,
families of the victims came to the port to search for their belongings.
Meanwhile, authorised agencies have collected DNA samples from 147 relatives of
the victims of the Lion Air JT610 plane crash for identification.
The process is carried out by the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team and
Kramat JatiPolice hospital, in cooperation with a forensic team from the University of Indonesia,
Padjajaran University,
and Fatmawati Hospital.
Indonesia'sNational
Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC)said many countries, including Argentina, the US,
Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, had also offered
their help in search and investigation.
Source: VNA
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