Rescuers found Thursday near the broken bodies from the wreckage of a Russian special plane crashed into the new steep slope of a volcano in Indonesia on a flight to impress potential buyers Air Jordans . All 45 people aboard were killed.
Due to the remoteness of the crash site, the body will be placed in nets and lifted with ropes to float a chopper, said the National Research and Rescue Agency spokesman Gagah Prakoso. Bodies collision Wednesday in the capital Jakarta had to be transported to the identification of family members.
“So far we have found no survivors, but we are still looking,” he said. “I can not comment on the condition of the body,” said Prakoso, but he added: “An airplane with a high velocity jet hit the rocks, exploded and ripped.”
The authorities had lost contact with the Sukhoi Superjet 100, shortly after takeoff from an airfield with Jakarta are mostly representatives of the Indonesian airlines. Family members have many of them for a long sleepless night spent at the airport, burst into tears, the message heard from the wreckage. Others stared in disbelief.
The plane, the first Russian passenger plane again since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago, met a jagged ridge of the summit of Mount Salak, a long-dormant volcano, so that a huge gash in the land of steep slope, as exempt from trees.
The Superjet – a 75 – to 95 seats – has been touted as a challenger of similar size aircraft from Bombardier Inc. of Canada and Brazil’s Embraer SA.
Potential buyers will be to examine the investigation into the crash signs of weakness in the plane.
“If it’s a technical fault … of course it is very serious for them,” said Tom Ballantyne, an aviation expert based in Sydney. “But if the pilot mistakes or errors of air traffic control Jordan 11 , it is not quite as bad as they say in the situation:” Well, there is no plane. ”
The plane took off early Wednesday afternoon for what should be a short demonstration flight – the second of the day.
Only 21 minutes later, the Russian pilot and co-pilot’s permission, from 10,000 feet to 6,000 feet to descend (3,000 meters to 1,800 meters) is requested, said Daryatmo, director of the National Search and Rescue Agency.
The aircraft was then the radar. It was unclear why the crew requested a change, he said, especially if they are as close to 7000 feet (2200 meters) volcano, or if they got the OK.
The communication between pilots and air traffic control are currently under review, said Tatang Kurniadi, head of the National Commission on Transportation Safety, but the bands will not be published soon.
More than 1,000 people, including soldiers and policemen, took part in search and rescue operations. Finally discovered helicopters carrying aerial surveys in the vicinity of the crater and north side of the wreck Air Jordan .
The Superjet – by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Division with the cooperation with Western partners developed – has been widely regarded as Russia’s chance to get into the market for international passenger aircraft again. The country of air and space industry has been severely compromised in the economic turbulence that the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union followed.
He was on a “Welcome to Asia!” Tour, which stops in Pakistan, Myanmar and Kazakhstan, and there it was at the forefront of the next in Vietnam and Laos.
All but 10 of the 45 people aboard were potential buyers and journalists, said Sunaryo of PT. Trimarga Rekatama organize, the company that helped meeting on Wednesday.
Other Russians, all of Sukhoi Company, an American consultant with a local airline and a French engine manufacturer Snecma were with.
The Superjet made its first commercial flight in the last year.
“It is their great hope they somehow get into the market for passenger jets in a big way they have,” said Ballantyne.
“We all know that the Russians had a dreadful record in the past with their planes, so it was vital to their industry.”
With a relatively low price of approximately $ 35 million plan has attracted nearly 170 orders. And Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of 240 million people with a growing middle class is already one of the largest customers.
Kartika Airlines and Sky Aviation – from dozens of airlines have emerged in Indonesia in the last decade to meet the growing demand for air travel cheap – ordered at least 42nd
Associated Press writer Ali Kotarumalos and Niniek Karmini in Jordan Shoes Jakarta and Margie Mason in Hanoi contributed to this report.