A diver dies while the tragedy of a condemned Lion Air flight continues – Travel Weekly

Indonesian officials confirmed the death of a volunteer diver while human remains were found The Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea last weekkilling 189 people.

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Syachrul Anto, who died on Friday, according to the Jakarta Post, was part of a team looking for bodies and debris after the tragic crash of the Java Sea.

Isswarto, commander of the search and rescue division of the Indonesian navy, told AFP Anto died as a result of the decompression.

Aged 48, who also served in Palu after the September earthquake and tsunami, he was buried in Surabaya over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the ABC According to reports, 105 body bags were found, but police and forensic identification were only able to identify 14 victims.

Vice President of the National Committee on Transportation Safety, Haryo Satmiko, confirmed that 69 hours of flight data had been extracted from a flight recorder found on Thursday, pushing the investigation a little closer to discover the cause of the accident.

The recorder has been found in poor condition and will require special treatment for data discovery.

"We will then badyze what happened to this flight," said Nurcahyo Utomo, chairman of the Indonesian Committee on Transport Safety. ABC.

Authorities said the search was continuing for the badpit voice recorder, which was reportedly buried in the mud.

The search operation was extended for three days as divers continued to search for the remains and main fuselage of the aircraft.

The flight was en route from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang on Bangka Island when it lost contact with air traffic control 13 minutes after take-off and crashed into the sea.

The 189 people on board have been killed in what has been called the worst air disaster in Indonesia for more than 20 years, raising new concerns about the rapid growth of the aviation sector in Indonesia, which had just to be removed from the blacklists of the EU and the United States.

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