AirAsia

Air Asia, more PMI personnel deployed

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PANGKALAN BUN -- The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has sent additional personnel to Pangkalan Bun in Central Kalimantan to help recover the bodies of victims of the AirAsia flight that crashed in Karimata Strait."We are going to pick up our colleagues from Jakarta who arrived at the airport today. I don't know their number," a spokesman for the...

Basarnas on Air Asia QZ8501 search and rescue

Indonesia attempts to find Air Asia plane's fuselage

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas)-led operation went on Friday by attempting to find the fuselage of AirAsia Flight QZ8501.The mission involved Baruna Jaya research vessel as well as MV Geo Survey and KN Jadayat because they were equipped with underwater detection facilities, Basarnas Chief Bambang Sulistyo said here Friday (2/1)The three vessels are equipped...