Crash victims' burial on Jan. 19<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The remains of 104 victims of the SilkAir
\nairplane which plunged into the Musi River, South Sumatra, last
\nmonth will be buried on Jan. 19, an air force official said
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
Commander of the Palembang Air Force Base Lt. Col. Yanuwardi
\nsaid Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto and
\nSingapore Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan agreed the remains
\nwould be buried in Palembang, capital of South Sumatra.<\/p>\n
\"The remains will be buried on Jan. 19 in Kebun Bunga
\ndistrict, about four kilometers from the airport,\" Yanuwardi
\ntold The Jakarta Post by phone.<\/p>\n
All passengers and crew aboard the SilkAir Boeing 737-300 were
\nkilled when the 10-month old plane crashed into an estuary in the
\nriver during a regular flight from Jakarta to Singapore.<\/p>\n
SilkAir is a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines that operates
\nshort-range flights around Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
Palembang, 60 kilometers upriver from the crash site, has been
\nthe official rescue command post throughout the search and rescue
\noperation.<\/p>\n
Yanuwardi said 104 coffins would be used. Just one passenger
\nhas been identified.<\/p>\n
About half of the plane has been recovered in small pieces,
\nand both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder,
\ncommonly referred to as the blackbox, have been found.<\/p>\n
They have been sent to the United States for analysis to help
\ndetermine why the plane, on a routine flight, fell out of the sky
\nin clear weather without any distress calls.<\/p>\n
Yanuwardi said a Singaporean dredger Moshasi, which is still
\nat the crash site, collected five truckloads of aircraft debris
\nand some body parts yesterday.<\/p>\n
The search was formally called off Monday but the dredger will
\nstay at the site until Jan. 12. (10)<\/p>",
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