Search continues for helicopter crash victims<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A search and rescue team continued its search
\nfor the missing crewmen and passenger from the helicopter
\nchartered by Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Indonesia which
\ncrashed in the Java Sea on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The head of security, health and relations at the foreign
\ncontractors management body of state oil and gas company
\nPertamina, Sidick Nitikusuma, told The Jakarta Post on Thursday
\nthe rescue team was searching for the missing persons from
\nmorning to afternoon around the crash site in the Arjuna offshore
\nfield around 100 kilometers north of Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The missing persons were identified as helicopter captain
\nEdward Tampubolon, a Pertamina physician attached to ARCO, Asri
\nBasyir, and helicopter loadmaster Atok (not Datok as printed on
\nthis page on Thursday). Tampubolon and Atok were employees of PT
\nDerazona, which owns the helicopter.<\/p>\n
\"The search effort will not stop until the missing persons are
\nfound,\" Sidick said.<\/p>\n
He said the search and rescue team included 10 divers from the
\nNational Search and Rescue Body.<\/p>\n
The Bell 206 was chartered by ARCO, a subsidiary of United
\nStates oil and gas giant Atlantic Richfield Company, for routine
\noperations before it crashed.<\/p>\n
Medical checkups<\/p>\n
The helicopter crashed into the sea on Wednesday morning
\nduring a flight from the Foxtrot platform to the BCS platform in
\nthe Arjuna offshore field. The helicopter was carrying Asri to
\nthe BCS platform to perform medical checkups on ARCO workers
\nthere.<\/p>\n
The body of Bambang Suharto, an ARCO security guard, was
\nrecovered from the crash.<\/p>\n
Sidick said Bambang's body was taken by his relatives to
\nSurabaya for burial.<\/p>\n
He said the search and rescue team, armed with metal
\ndetectors, had discovered parts of the chopper buried in up to 70
\ncentimeters of clay at the bottom of the sea, which is around 50
\nmeters deep around the crash site.<\/p>\n
However, the team had yet to find the main body of the
\nhelicopter as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\"What we have found so far is debris from the chopper; a
\ndoctor's bag and a black bag belonging to Bambang,\" Chief Sgt.
\nSucipto of Tanjung Priok's marine police said.<\/p>\n
A source at Pertamina said the search and rescue team had
\nhired several shamans to locate the missing persons and the body
\nof the helicopter. (emf\/jsk)<\/p>",
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