A Search and Rescue Mission in Indonesia
April 13, 2021
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 was an Indonesian domestic flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Pontianak, Indonesia. On Saturday 9 January 2021, the Boeing 737 crashed into the waters of the Thousand Islands just four minutes after take-off. The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Wododo, immediately ordered all authorized agencies to carry out search and rescue (SAR) operations.
The SAR operation for Flight 182 involved several government agencies, including the National Search and Rescue Agency Republic of Indonesia, the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and the Indonesian National Police. The Indonesian Navy Hydro-Oceanographic Center (Pushidrosal) immediately dispatched the hydrographic survey vessel KRI Rigel-933 to carry out search operations at the crash site. KRI Rigel-933 is a survey ship made by the French shipyard OCEA in 2015, with sophisticated hydrography and oceanography survey e
Indonesia plane crash: Divers using high-tech ping locator to retrieve black boxes of Sriwijaya Air jet
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Updated: Monday, January 11, 2021, 9:12 [IST]
Jakarta, Jan 11: The search for the black boxes of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified on Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea.
An Indonesian Navy diver shows debris recovered from the water during a search operation for a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed into the sea near Jakarta. PTI
The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and the search so far has yielded plane parts and human remains but no sign of survivors.
the reality is if they said we don t think this is it, they were obligated to search. they ve done it. it s not there. we re in this for the long haul. now, they re suggesting maybe those pings came from the vessel that was searching and it was emitting some song and that s where it was coming from. you would have thought technical experts could determine that. even at the time, i remember reporting skeptics saying these may not be from the black boxes, it may be from another vessel or that vessel itself conducting the search. that s true. people were criticizing at the time the chinese ping locator and saying they re probably hearing their own boat. you would think, these are the most professional searchers available, they wouldn t know better than this? this sounds incredible to me they didn t consider or realize the possibility at the time they re listening to their own boat or a nearby boat.
resources, which would be your choice to assist in this search after the bliefin ends its work. i think really we ve got to look at the technology and what its constraints are. to david s point, you ve got to align the technology with the requirement. and if the bluefin can t get down to the depths in the last 5% of the search area, then it makes sense to go onto something else. in terms of the expectation management, the bluefin has only been really deployed for 12 days. the first part of the underwater search was all ping locator and looking for the black boxes and the pings. they come in amplitude and strength. they don t locate where the black boxes are. when they transferred from bluling it out of the pulling it out of the water to deploying the bluefin, right at that very
detected these pings. we went from over 10 million square miles. what we knew is that the unusual thing is that we were going in for the needle without finding the hay stack. that s the ping locator zoning directly in on the black boxes without finding debris. now that time has past and the decision that angus houston had to make is when he transfers the ping locator to the blue fin. at that moment, houston knew that we were in this for the long time. and that s where we re in at the moment. we re in for the long search. they were hoping this was the hay stack. we know this may not be the luckyist 13th try to find something be it wreckage or a black box. now we re hearing possible deep towed submersible to scope out this wider area. can you explain to me how this