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Find Black Box, To hang on the rope Kopassus member and Tree Roots

Black box or black box of Sukhoi's Superjet 100 plane has now been found. Opportunities to find the cause of the crash that fateful Russian butan wide open. Apparently, not easy to find the object.

First Lieutenant Infantry Taufik, one Kopassus members who participated found the black box is recalled, the black box located in the extreme terrain. Taufik found the black box of approximately 100 meters near the location of the tail.

"We ran up the tail. In the sweep we find some boxes in the tail, but after we check and confirm it was not a box that we're looking for," said Taufik told AFP on Wednesday (16/05/2012).

To get to the location of the black box, the team must pass a cliff with a slope of up to 85 degrees. "We went to the ropes and techniques to survive by using the root of the tree," he explained.

Special Forces teams finally started doing finding 100 meters to the top of the tail. "That's where we find objects that are suspected of Black Boxes. Condition is half buried in the ground state in black premises on fire," he explained.

Then, Cont Taufik, after his report was correct and to check it was the fateful plane's blackbox.

"We were provided with a photograph before leaving the blac kbox. Orange color in the picture. After we picked up and the match turned out timbukl orange. And certainly it is blac kbox," he explained.

Taufik said the object bebrobot approximately 3 pounds with black fire conditions. "But, still intact," he said.
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One victim's body bag Sukhoi Evacuated to Halim This Morning

One more body bag Sukhoi Superjet 100 victims (SSJ 100) were evacuated to the air base Perdanakusumah Halim, East Jakarta, this morning. The body bag was evacuated by helicopter owned by PMI.

The evacuation process began at 6:30 pm with the Puma helicopter owned by Air Force. The body bags were evacuated from the crash site on Mount Salak SSJ Cijeruk to the Command Post.

The information gathered AFP on Tuesday (5/15/2012), the rest of the body bag is evacuated on Monday (14/5) yesterday. The body bags have not been given the constraints terevakuasi unfavorable weather.

Puma helicopters then lower the body bag at the helicopter base in Cijeruk. From there, the helicopters transported a body bag kemuadian Halim PMI to be taken to the hospital next to the Police.

At around 7:09 pm, Red Cross helicopters to evacuate the body bags. The body bags are expected to arrive at Halim about 20 minutes later.

Monitoring the Post Cijeruk, a joint search and rescue team has been busy. 12 Special Forces personnel arrived at the Command Post Cijeruk and seen one member of the Indonesian Rock Climbing Federation (FPTI) participated in the entourage arrived at the location of the red beret.
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