US transport safety plank sending crew to probe Sriwijaya Weather plane crash
13 January, 2021
AMERICA said on Tuesday (Jan 12) it'll send a team of investigators to Indonesia within a probe in to the crash of a Sriwijaya Air plane with 62 people on board.
The National Transportation Security Plank (NTSB) will send the US accredited representative and three other investigators to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The Boeing 737-500 plane plunged in to the ocean on Saturday, four mins after it departed from Jakarta's main airport.
The NTSB has expertise in operations, individual performance, airplane structures and systems, the safety board said, adding it'll be joined by personnel from the US Federal Aviation Administration, Standard Electric and Boeing.
Indonesia's military chief Hadi Tjahjanto explained on Tuesday he was highly confident that the cockpit tone of voice recorder from the plane would be found soon, following retrieval of the flight data recorder.
More than 3,600 rescue personnel, 13 helicopters, 54 large ships and 20 tiny boats were searching the area merely north of Jakarta where air travel SJ182 crashed, and have found parts of the plane and individual remains in the normal water at a depth of 23m.
Searchers have sent human body bags containing human remains to be to police identification gurus, who on Mon said they had determined their first victim, 29-year-old airline flight attendant Okky Bisma.
Indonesia's transport ministry previously explained that the Boeing 737-500 aircraft, which have been grounded between March and December last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, passed an airworthiness inspection on Dec 14.
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