Grim Procession: Indonesia Crash Victim Families Give Blood For DNA Matching By Haeril HALIM
on January 12 2021 11:14 PM
Relatives of Indonesia s plane crash victims formed a grim procession at a Jakarta morgue Tuesday, to give blood so investigators can try to match their DNA to body parts plucked from the murky depths of the Java Sea.
Scores of bags filled with human remains are arriving by the day in the aftermath of Saturday s crash.
The Sriwijaya Air flight slammed into the sea just four minutes after takeoff, after plunging about 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) in less than a minute. Investigators are hoping to use DNA from relatives to help identify the remains of victims of Saturday s plane crash off the coast of Indonesia
The Boeing 737 s flight data recorder was found on Tuesday with authorities in Indonesia saying it will take two to five days to extract the information from it.
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Updated January 12, 2021
Navy divers bring back bags of debris they collected to the search and rescue ship off the northern coast of Jakarta on January 12, 2021, during recovery operations for Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 which crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on January 9 with 62 people onboard. Azwar Ipank / AFP
Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off Jakarta in their hunt for the black boxes that will likely be key to unlocking the mystery of why a passenger jet carrying 62 people fell from the sky.
Some 3,600 personnel are taking part in the recovery effort, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters flying over small islands off the capital’s coast.