Airbus Industrie team set to leave crash site<\/p>\n
MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Airbus Industrie's air safety
\ninvestigation team will leave the country today after helping
\nIndonesian workers over the past three weeks search for the
\ncockpit voice recorder of the ill-fated Garuda Indonesia Airbus
\nA-300-B4.<\/p>\n
\"Those colleagues from Airbus Industrie have been working very
\nhard in assisting us search for the black box,\" said Oetarjo
\nDiran, the head of the Ministry of Transportation's search team.<\/p>\n
\"Although team members from England and Australia are leaving,
\nthe search for the black box will continue,\" Oetarjo told Antara
\nhere Monday night.<\/p>\n
It is hoped the voice recorder, once found, will shed light on
\nthe cause of the crash of Airbus A-300-B4 in Buah Nabar on Sept.
\n26, killing all 234 people on board.<\/p>\n
Oetarjo said help which had been given by the Airbus Industrie
\nteam, including the latest type of detector said to be effective
\nin recovering metal objects buried in mud, was proof that the
\ninternational aviation community also wished to draw a lesson
\nfrom the tragic disaster.<\/p>\n
International aviation circles, he added, felt that the Garuda
\nAirbus crash was a major disaster and unique in terms of the
\nfield configuration, number of people killed and the crash site,
\nwhich is in a densely forested valley.<\/p>\n
Oetarjo said he did not overlook the moral and material help
\ngiven by the local people, such as hoes and baskets to dig out
\npieces of the aircraft buried in the mud and carry them away.<\/p>\n
\"What's important is to understand why and how the accident
\nhappened. Not to seek who's to blame,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"This is why we must not lose spirit in the search for the
\nblack box and we still need help from various parties, the Armed
\nForces, the government and local communities.\"<\/p>\n
Head of the provincial transportation office, Ashwin Harahap,
\ndismissed speculation that the black box had been found and was
\nhidden by some people to obscure evidence.<\/p>\n
\"That's not true. It's not hidden. It's still hasn't been
\nfound,\" he said after a ceremony to return teenagers Siswandi
\nSimatupang and Chrismanto Manurung to their parents after they
\nstowed away on a flight from Medan to Jakarta by hiding inside an
\nairplane's landing gear compartment.<\/p>\n
Harahap also dismissed yet another speculation that the black
\nbox never existed in the first place, which was why the search
\nhad proven so futile. \"The handle of the black box has already
\nbeen found,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Harahap said that search efforts would continue. (21\/33)<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/airbus-industrie-team-set-to-leave-crash-site-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }