Last victims of Pelita plane crash come home

Last victims of Pelita plane crash come home

JAKARTA (JP): The last two bodies of the victims of the Pelita
Air Service plane crash in Hong Kong were flown to Indonesia
yesterday, one week after the accident.

The two caskets came on a Garuda Indonesia plane, which landed
at the Soekarno-Hatta airport. From there, they were flown to
Halim Perdanakusumah Airport, the home base of Pelita, where
their grieving relatives awaited.

After a brief ceremony at the tarmac, Capt. Boediono,
president of the state-owned air charter company, which operated
the ill-fated Hercules aircraft, handed over the bodies of flight
engineer Bambang Harjono and avionic Eldon Karta Siahaan to their
relatives.

Bambang was buried at the Jeruk Purut public cemetery, South
Jakarta, yesterday while Eldon is to be buried this afternoon in
Tanah Kusir public cemetery.

Four bodies were flown home on Wednesday.

There are six survivors of that plane crash. Five have
returned, but one still remains at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
Hong Kong.

Indonesian and Hong Kong authorities are still investigating
the cause of the accident. (rms)