Police Gathers Ante-mortem Data for AirAsia QZ8501 Victims

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - AirAsia flight QZ8501 Search and Rescue Team has supposedly found a number of evidence including debris from the planes and bodies of the victims floating around the northern part of the Java sea near the Karimata strait.

Head of the Doctor of East Java Regional Police Budiyono said that, as soon as the SAR team collects all bodies from the missing aircraft, his team will be conducting an ante-mortem of the victims’ families so that they can identify the bodies that are found. Ante-Mortem is the data obtained from the victim’s family or from the life record of the victims. These include the DNA and fingerprints.

"We will collect preliminary ante-mortem data as we have communicated this intention to the families of the victims. Hopefully the remaining of the victims can be returned back to the families" said Budiyono at Crisis Center, Terminal II, East Java, Tuesday (30/12/2014).

Budiyono explains how the process of trying to identify each body found will be done at Bhayangkara Hospital, Surabaya, East Java. "We have prepared ourselves for victims identification process at Bhayangkara Hospital," he explained.

Budiyono further informed the successful collection of some of the ante-mortem data of some of the victims’ families. "There has already been 15 individuals who have yielded information about the victims. The data include photos, physical appearances and the victims disease history," he further explained.

AirAsia flight QZ8501 carrying 155 passengers including 7 crews has lost contact with the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) Soekarno- hatta Airport on Sunday 28 December 2014 at around 6.17 am local time. The aircraft took off from Juanda International Airport, Surabaya at 5.20 am local time and should have arrived in Singapore at 8.30 am local time. (Akp/Riz)