05/01/2015
Flight 8501
5th Jan 2015
Our deepest condolences goes to those who lost their loved one on board 8501. It is really unfortunate for this world, specially, south east Asia to have witnessed, another tragic accident in air.
What went wrong? whom to blame? How safe are air travel? These are some of the questions which still needs an answer. While rescue operations are still in progress, here is what a pilots's daughter have to say to all:
"Pilot's daughter makes a plea"
The daughter of the plane’s pilot, Captain Iriyanto, made a televised plea to the public not to blame her father.
“He is just a victim and has not been found yet. My family is now mourning,” said Angela Anggi Ranastianis.
“As a daughter, I cannot accept it. No pilot will harm his passengers,” she told TV One.
The families of victims have been preparing funerals as the bodies are identified in Surabaya, where a crisis center has been set up at a police hospital with facilities to store 150 bodies.
Yunita Syawal, at a wake for her 23-year-old brother, said she first feared that he was on the AirAsia Flight when she was sent a selfie of him and his friends boarding one of the carrier’s planes at Surabaya airport.
“Even after days, we still kept thinking he’s alive, but now that we have seen his body, we know he’s gone for sure,” she said.
“There is a void left in my heart, but I hope in time I will heal.”