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"I heard that the plane from Bali already had a problem, okay. So why did he steal? "Fendy asks, 43, sitting on the sidewalk in front of the East Jakarta Police Hospital, in search of meaning.
The last time Fendy saw his wife, Mawar Sariarti, was when he dropped her off at the airport on Monday morning, before boarding a plane that then plunged into the Java Sea 13 minutes later. takeoff.
"The system is difficult in Indonesia. It's like they're making fun of people's lives, it's commonplace for them, "he said softly," They should not try to excuse saying it was a new plane. They were not supposed to steal. "
Five days after the new Boeing 737 Max operated by Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air crashed in clear weather off the coast, killing 189 passengers, family members are looking for answers and a fault.
In the wake of the disaster, reports revealed that the same plane had had technical difficulties the previous night on a Bali-Jakarta flight a few hours before its crash.
For families with loved ones on board, their grief is now stamped with palpable anger.
Friday, the parents of the police hospital – where family members handed over toothbrushes, unwashed clothes and dental records in the hope of assisting the experts in forensic science to identify the victims – had the chance to confront Lion Air directly.
"We have just been allowed to hang here"
In a large hospital room, more than 100 family members attended the press conference held, arms crossed or arms crossed, looking shameful judicial police. A Lion Air representative provided the latest information as of the date of the search and urged them to be patient. .
But their ads ran into a mixture of exasperation and contempt.
"You can talk to the public about the black box, but that's not what we need to hear," says the first family member to answer, his voice wobbling at the microphone: "If you you really care about us, do not be so proud. . "
A man in the audience closes his eyes as he recites a prayer, while police psychologists try to distract the children in the park. Most family members wear plastic tags around their necks – identifying the wearer and those they have lost.
"The results of the survey are not important to us. The important thing is when will we finish here? Asked the next, a man dressed in a batik shirt: "Are we able to see the condition of the corpses?" No, we have just been allowed to hang here.
In the five days since the JT610 flight fell to the sea, the disaster victim identification team has identified only four of the 189 casualties.
Dr. Lisda Cancer, a specialist in forensic medicine, told reporters that the first victim was identified after making a match on a fingerprint and a gold ring, on a hand that had entered.
Friday afternoon, 67 body bags arrived from the port to the hospital, mainly a scrambled mixture of body parts. "Parts of the body that have entered," admitted Cancer, "we have only limited information."
Parents have gathered at the police hospital for days in the hope of getting a positive identity, and frustration has led to a series of gruesome questions.
"Among the pieces that go into the body bag, do you put them together first or what?" Asked a concerned parent. "We all want this process to be faster."
According to Islam, the dominant religion in Indonesia, a corpse should be properly washed and prepared for burial as soon as possible – a ritual that almost no one in the room has been able to do. ; perform.
In search of the truth
The families also questioned whether Lion Air was responsible for the technical difficulties that the plane would have encountered on Sunday night, including "unreliable" speed indicators and the pilot asking to turn around five minutes after takeoff, apparently before to solve the problem.
The Guardian also learned that the same plane had had a separate technical problem several days earlier, during a Manado-Denpasar flight.
Lion Air adheres to his statement that the aircraft was fit to fly. "Yes, we took the time to solve the problem of Manado in Denpasar to make sure everything was well settled," said Nyoman Rai Pering, director of Lion Air's largest engineering center, located in Batam. , at the request of the aircraft flight, had been immobilized longer than normal this weekend.
"I think the problem came from the angle of attack, which controls the stability of the aircraft," he said, adding that this problem had also been fixed and that the The plane had been allowed to fly.
On Friday, the Department of Transportation announced Friday that it had discovered "minor" flaws in two other Boeing 737 Max aircraft, including a problem displaying cockpit indicators that, according to one analyst, could be similar to the one reported in the crash. jand. The ministry inspects 10 recently released jets belonging to Lion and the flagship carrier Garuda.
Few details were revealed, but the department indicated that it had examined more than half a dozen streams and had discovered that a problem related to the display of the cockpit was tied to another, while another had a problem in the stabilization system.
Investigators said it It could take weeks to download the information from the recovered flight data recorder, and probably much longer for the true cause of the tragic crash to be revealed. The black box is damaged and requires special treatment to ensure the survival of its data. "Collision Response Capacity Memory" was opened and washed. Part of its wiring will have to be replaced and a new hull provided by Lion Air before its data can be accessed, said the National Committee on Transportation Safety.
Marsudi, from Palembang in South Sumatra, lost his daughter, Cici Ariska, in the crash. Friday. he is sitting with red eyes with an empty stare, smoking a chain under a tree in the hospital.
Newly wed, last weekend Cici and her husband, Chandra, were on vacation in Bali and Jakarta before taking the JT610 flight to Bangka.
On Facebook, they had posted photos with their friends wearing matching pink shirts in front of the Lion Air plane on the tarmac, then eating seafood in Jimbaran Bay in Bali.
She was 24 years old.
