Surabaya, East Java (Antara) -- The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team of the East Java regional police command identified two British nationals who were victims of the recent AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash in the Java Sea.
Chief of the DVI team Senior Commissioner Dr. Budiyono said here on Wednesday that three victims labeled B096, B100 and B101 had been identified.
The body labeled B096 was Chi Man Choi, a 48-year-old man from Britain; the body labeled B101 was Natalina Wuntarjo, a 33-year-old woman who was also a British citizen; and the victim labeled B100 was identified as Anna Widyawati, a 37-year-old woman from Surabaya.
Chi Man Choi was identified after primary data, such as dental x-ray records, were matched with a panoramic photograph of his family. Secondary data, including height, age, sex and private belongings such as ID and credit cards, also helped to identify him.
"After matching data, it was concluded that the victim was Chi Man Choi," Dr. Budiyono.
Wuntarjo's body was identified by matching her clothing---her shirt and jacket---with footage recorded by CCTV cameras at Surabaya's Juanda Airport, from where the airplane had departed before crashing in the Java Sea in Central Kalimantan.
She was also identified once primary data, such as dental x-ray images, were matched with a panoramic photograph of her family, in addition to medical data, including height, age and sex.
"By combining primary and secondary data, we were certain that the body belonged to 33-year-old Natalia Wuntarjo from Britain," he stated.
With regard to Anna Widyawati's identification, Budiyono noted, "Her body was identified based on her belongings---a gold necklace and a white floral-printed shirt. It was what she had been wearing when she boarded the flight, as recorded by CCTV cameras at Juanda Airport."
The identification of the bodies of these three victims increased the total count of identified passengers to 78 of the 102 bodies brought to Bhayangkara Police Hospital for identification, including that of a "non-human," or a primate.
The AirAsia airplane was en route from Surabaya, East Java province, to Singapore when it crashed in the Java Sea on December 28, 2014.
Of the total 162 victims, 155 were Indonesians, including the pilot. Among the foreign nationals on board were three South Koreans, a French co-pilot, a Briton, a Singaporean, and a Malaysian. (*) Reporting by Abdul Malik Ibrahim
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