Liputan6.com, Surabaya AirAsia QZ8501 incident has startled the world, leaving many particularly frightened to use airplanes as the medium for transportation. Despite underlying fear, the joint SAR team has showed to the world their ability and trustworthiness in finding and evacuating what was left from the initially missing AirAsia QZ8501. On Friday 9 January 2015, the search team has successfully discovered 7 other deceased passengers which added to the already existing 14 passengers readied to be identified by the Disaster Victim Identification Team (DVI). Thus today, a total of 21 will undergo the DVI process for further assurance of their identity.
Head of East Java’s police public relations division Awi Setiyono in Surabaya tells how from the 21 passengers being identified, 14 of them will go through a stage of reconciliation, whereas the rest will be sent to the division of post mortem checking.
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"For the 7 bodies freshly arrived last night, we will do a parallel checking to further unravel their identity," Awi Setyono explains, Saturday (10/01/2015).
He is hoping to have all discovered bodies that came from the AirAsia QZ8501 crash to be identified quickly and effectively so that those bodies can be returned to their families.
The head of DVI team in East Java, Budiyono said it is almost impossible to identify the passengers they have been in the sea for quite some time which caused the body parts to rot and changed in forms. Often, identification through DNA was deemed necessary.
"The DVI team starts to use DNA data as the primary data to identify victims. This is because it is difficult to familiarize ourselves with the victims with their conditions hardly promising," Budiyono said.
According to him, the DNA data of victims can also be collected from the personal belongings of the victims. It does not necessarily entail the blood of family members.
Meanwhile, Budiyono requests for all parties to remain patient as they loiter for identification process to be done. To assure the identity of the victims, what is imperative is not the hastiness of the process, but it is the accuracy of the process in identifying them.
"We work all day from morning through til night time just to help reveal the identity of the victims," Budiyono explains. (Akp/Tnt)