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JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian rescue diver died in search of a plane that crashed early in the week near Jakarta, killing the 189 people on board, announced Saturday. search and rescue agency (Basarnas).
Syachrul Anto, 48, died on Friday while diving in search of the victims of the crashed Lion (Air) plane, "the agency said Saturday via its Instagram account sar_nasional.
"Our deepest condolences for the passing of a humanitarian hero of the Indonesian diving rescue team," said Basarnas chief, Syaugi, in a press release. Anto died around 4 pm Friday, he said.
We did not know immediately how Anto had perished. Anto's family chose not to perform an autopsy and asked that his remains be buried immediately, Basamas spokesman Yusuf Latif told Reuters.
Among other missions, Anto was also one of the major divers involved in the search for an AirAsia aircraft that crashed off Borneo in late 2014, he said. .
Lifeguards played a crucial role in the recovery of human remains to identify them and discover what happened to the Boeing Co. 737 MAX, almost new, which crashed on Monday in the sea. Java, 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta.
As of Saturday, 73 body bags, containing few remains intact, had been found on the site.
Divers are looking for a second black box in the plane, while investigators are trying to get data from a partially damaged logger found Thursday after being found wreckage.
The pilot of JT610 had requested and obtained permission to return to Jakarta, but what went wrong remains a mystery.
"The team has been hearing the sound of" ping "from another black box for two days," Soerjanto Tjahjono told Reuters.
The sea is only 30 m deep at the crash site, but strong currents and nearby pipelines have impeded the search.
The families of the victims are desperate to find out what happened, but the investigation into the first crash of a Boeing 737 MAX is also being scrutinized by the global aviation industry. The results of a preliminary investigation will be made public after 30 days, said an official of the investigation team.
Indonesia is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world, but its safety performance is uneven. Its transport safety group investigated 137 serious aeronautical incidents between 2012 and 2017.
Written by Fergus Jensen; Edited by Kim Coghill
