In loving memory: Refa holding a photo of Okky while being comforted by a relative during his funeral in Jakarta. AFP
Sobbing friends and relatives filed into a Jakarta cemetery to bury the remains of a flight attendant from the crashed Indonesian passenger jet, as divers restarted their hunt for its second black box.
Okky Bisma, 29, was the first confirmed victim of Saturday’s disaster after fingerprints from his retrieved hand were matched to those on a government identity database.
There were 62 crew and passengers, including 10 children, on the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 when it plunged about 3,000m in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea just after take-off from Jakarta.
Published on: Friday, January 15, 2021
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ldha Refa, the wife of Okky Bisma, a flight attendant on Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, grieves at his funeral in Jakarta.
JAKARTA: Sobbing friends and relatives filed into a Jakarta cemetery Thursday to bury the remains of a flight attendant from the crashed Indonesian passenger jet, as divers restarted their hunt for its second black box.
Okky Bisma, 29, was the first confirmed victim of Saturday’s disaster after fingerprints from his retrieved hand were matched to those on a government identity database.
There were 62 crew and passengers, including 10 children, on the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 when it plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea just after take-off from Jakarta.
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Jan 14, 2021 09:02 AM EST
As divers restarted their hunt for its second black box, the remains of the flight attendant who was recovered from the site of Indonesian plane crash was buried in a Jakarta cemetery, where sobbing friends and relatives filed on the burial site.
The 29-year-old, Okky Bisma, was the first confirmed victim of the disaster on Saturday as the fingerprints from his retrieved hand match those on the identity database of the government.
The crashed Indonesia passenger jet before the incident happened, the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 were carrying 62 crews and passengers, which includes 10 children, when it plunged around10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea after taking off from Jakarta.
Sobbing friends and relatives filed into a Jakarta cemetery Thursday to bury the remains of a flight attendant from the crashed Indonesian passenger jet, as divers restarted their hunt for its second black box. - Fresh hunt - Nearly 270 divers were on hand Thursday as authorities restarted the underwater hunt, which was called off a day earlier due to bad weather and rough seas.