Navy Cassa plane victims removed from crash site<\/p>\n
TIMIKA, Irian Jaya (JP): All nine fatalities of Monday's Cassa
\nU-614 plane crash were removed on Friday from the accident site
\nto the town of Timika, and seven of them were flown by Hercules
\nmilitary transport planes to Jakarta, Surabaya and Yogyakarta for
\ntheir respective funerals.<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post's correspondent reported from Timika that the
\nbodies of Nathaniel Kaywai, speaker of the Irian Jaya legislative
\ncouncil, and adjutant to Irian Jaya governor police Chief
\nbrigadier Jeheskia Z. had yet to be flown to Jayapura due to bad
\nweather.<\/p>\n
The two corpses are still at Timika airport hangar, and are
\nscheduled to be transported to Sentani airport in Jayapura this
\n(Saturday) morning.<\/p>\n
Friday's evacuation operation, commanded by deputy chief of
\nSearch and Rescue Brig. Gen. Yusuf Solihin, started at 5:45 a.m.
\nlocal time.<\/p>\n
Two helicopters, with twelve people, including doctors and
\nmembers of Army elite troops Kopassus, were involved in the final
\noperation.<\/p>\n
Before 7 a.m. the bodies of Nathaniel, technicians First. Sgt.
\nSultan and Ordinary Seaman Gunawan, Trikora Military Command
\nChief. Maj. Gen. Tonny A. Rompis, Irian Jaya Police chief Insp.
\nGen. FX. Sumardi, head of Irian Jaya Prosecutors' Office head
\nBismar Mannu, pilot Maj. Sutopo Waluyo and co-pilot First. Lt.
\nDedi Haryanto were all removed from the crash site to the village
\nof Silimo.<\/p>\n
It took about one hour and 15 minutes flying time from Silimo
\nto Timika, or about two days and two nights walking.<\/p>\n
The deceased were kept at the Catholic priests' dormitory in
\nSilimo before being transported to Timika airport.<\/p>\n
A team of doctors from the Irian Jayan Police conducted an
\nautopsy on the remains in a hangar before they (the remains) were
\nhonored in a military ceremony led by Trikora Military Command
\nChief of Staff Brig. Gen. K. Ralahalo.<\/p>\n
At about 4 p.m. local time a Hercules plane carrying the
\nbodies of Tonny A. Rompis and Bismar Mannu flew to Jakarta, while
\nabout one hour later another plane took the bodies of Sumardi,
\nSultan, Gunawan, Sutopo and Dedi Haryanto to Jakarta Surabaya and
\nYogyakarta. Sumardi, born in Yogyakarta, will be buried at
\nYogyakarta's Kusumanegara hero cemetery.<\/p>\n
Operational unit chief of the National Search and Rescue
\nAgency First. Adm. (ret) Sukapdjioto said that a cold breeze was
\nblowing during the operation. \"We hope that clear skies will
\ncontinue until the bodies arrive at their destinations,\" the
\nofficer said, adding that the situation was now tense in the
\narea.<\/p>\n
In the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar, relatives of
\nprosecutor Bismar Mannu said they wanted Mannu to be buried in
\nMakassar.<\/p>\n
\"We have contacted SAR officials in Jayapura and told them
\nthat we want Mannu's body to be flown to Makassar,\" Petta Bae,
\nelder brother of Mannu told the Post on Friday.<\/p>\n
\"Mannu had once said that if he died he wanted to rest behind
\nhis parents at the village of Aralae, Bone regency,\" Petta said.<\/p>\n
Bone is some 250 kilometers south of Makassar.<\/p>\n
A lot of people have been visiting Mannu's residence to
\nexpress condolence.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Antara reported from Surabaya that hundreds of
\npeople, including the relatives of the dead, had been waiting for
\nhours, since 3 p.m., for the corpses of Sutopo Waluyo, Dedy
\nHaryanto, Sultan and Gunawan to arrive at Juanda Airport.<\/p>\n
The Hercules plane which carried the bodies arrived in
\nSurabaya Friday night.<\/p>\n
Another plane carrying the bodies of Tonny A. Rompis and
\nBismar Mannu landed at the Halim Perdanakusuma military airbase
\nin Jakarta at 9:17 p.m.<\/p>\n
Military chief Adm. Widodo AS and Attorney General Marzuki
\nDarusman led the reception ceremony at the airport here. Deputy
\nArmy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Kiki Syahnakri officially handed
\nover the corpses to Widodo and Marzuki.<\/p>\n
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto, Navy Chief of
\nStaff Adm. Indroko Sastrowiryono, Air Force Chief of Staff
\nMarshal Hanafie Asnan, Minister of Home Affairs and Regional
\nAutonomy Surjadi Soedirdja and Minister of Industry and Trade
\nLuhut B. Panjaitan were also at hand.<\/p>\n
The remains of Sumardi arrived in Yogyakarta after 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
The funerals will be held on Saturday
\nmorning.(02\/35\/edt\/23\/27\/sur)<\/p>",
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