Entry #12 - March 4th, 2015

With no bodies found in past week, AirAsia Flight 8501 main search ends

Mar 4th, 2015

By: Johnny Yu

CNN News

National research and rescue chief of Indonesia, Bambang Soelistyo, announced that the main search-and-recovery operation surrounding crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 officially ended on Tuesday.

On December 28, the crew on the Airbus A320-200 jet lost contact with air traffic controllers. Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan later explained the plane climbed rapidly and stalled shortly before it crashed.

Searchers found remnants from the AirAsia aircraft and the remains of some passengers in the Java Sea.

As of Tuesday, 94 bodies were identified as passengers who had been on the AirAsia plane, with six other bodies still in Surabaya's Bhayangkara Hospital. But this result still leaves some families waiting.

My Own Thoughts & Opinions

Authorities need to be more aware about plane safety. We already had many crashes in the past years, and they all left families grieving for their lost ones. Airlines always tell the families who lost their loved ones that they are sorry about the accident, but instead of saying sorry, why don't you make sure that same accident will not happen again in the future? What is lost is lost and will never come back. So airlines, think about this and be more careful in the future.