Lion Air to resume search for plane crash victims
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Lion Air announced yesterday that it was funding a multi-million dollar search effort using a Dutch company for the second black box and missing victims from doomed flight JT-610.
The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, crashing into waters off the north coast of Indonesia鈥檚 Java Island and killing all 189 people onboard.
Authorities called off the grim task of identifying the crash victims last month, with only 125 people officially identified after tests on human remains that filled some 200 body bags.
Following requests from victims鈥 families, Lion said it had allocated 38 billion rupiah (US$2.6 million) to hire a Dutch company to continue the search with its ship the MPV Everest.
鈥淭he search operation will focus on the latest coordinates of the crash... with an operational time of 10 consecutive days in December,鈥 the airline said in a statement.
The MPV Everest, a 142-meter-long vessel with state-of-the-art remotely operated vehicles, will arrive near the crash site tomorrow. Bad weather had delayed its trip from the Malaysian port of Johor Baru.
News that the hunt for the wreckage would continue with the new vessel was welcomed by Evi Syamsul Komar, whose nephew was aboard the flight.
鈥淲e have heard many promises before, we don鈥檛 know who to trust anymore, but our family is still waiting,鈥 Komar said.
Dozens of family members of those killed in the crash protested in Jakarta last week, demanding the search continue. They called on authorities to help retrieve the remaining 64 bodies and pay compensation.
Nearly 30 relatives of the crash victims have filed lawsuits against Boeing, alleging faults with the new model 737 MAX led to the deaths.
The preliminary crash report from Indonesia鈥檚 transport safety agency suggested that pilots struggled to control the plane鈥檚 anti-stalling system immediately before the crash. Investigators also found that the jet should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem before its fatal journey.
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