Basarnas Recovers Last Pieces of AirAsia QZ8501
2 March 2015 13:46 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The National Search and Rescue Agency’s (Basarnas) teams have found the last pieces of wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 and handed them to the National Commission for Transportation Safety (KNKT) in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta on Monday.
The wreckage is presently onboard the Crest Onyx ship—one of the vessels deployed to recover the debris of the ill-fated plane.
“The wreckage arrived at 7:00 this morning,” said Anton Sianaga, an Onyx crewmember, at the Tanjung Priok Harbor on Monday.
The wreckage consists of a fraction of the plane’s fuselage, a huge portion of its wing, multiple chunks in varied size, and four tires.
Anton said the difficult condition of the recovery site in the Karimata Strait had stymied recovery efforts, and that Basarnas could not retrieve the wreckage until the recent Chinese New Year.
ALI HIDAYAT