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Dozens gather in Lion Air crash crisis center to report on family members
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Family members rush to the crisis center set up for crashed Lion Air flight JT610 in Halim Perdanakusuma Airport on Monday, Oct. 29. (JP/Riska Rahman)
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ozens of people gathered on Monday afternoon at the crisis center set up in Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in East Jakarta to report that their family members and relatives were onboard the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT610.
“We opened the crisis center at 11 a.m. and people have been coming here since then. There are around 100 people here so far,” Alvian, an official from state-owned insurance company Jasa Raharja on standby at the crisis center, told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
The crisis center serves as an information center for the families of the victims. There were 189 people onboard the aircraft, which took off at 6:20 a.m. from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Cengkareng, Banten, and was heading to Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Islands province.
Read also: Lion Air JT610 crash: What we know so far
Many of the passengers were employees and civil servants who were catching the first flight of the day.
One was 24-year-old M. Luthfi Nurramdhani, who worked for the Pangkalpinang branch of the state-owned postal service firm PT Pos Indonesia.
“He was catching the first flight so he could go straight to work today,” said Nabila Kariza, 25, a friend of Luthfi who was waiting for the latest update about the ill-fated flight.
Tri Siswoyo, an official from Lion Air, said the search and rescue team was bringing at least six body bags to the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. Families of the victims will be directed to the hospital for identification and later for the collection of the bodies, he added.
