Two rescue helicopters have arrived at the crash site of the Sukhoi SuperJet-100 and started collecting the bodies of its passengers at Mount Salak. Four containers with the remains of the passengers have been taken to Jakarta Airport and a military hospital, RIA Novosti reports.
There are about 20 ambulances at the airport to take bodies to a military hospital. Another helicopter is about to take five more containers that Russian servicemen of the Ministry for Emergencies and special forces carried from the crash area in Indonesia.
An Il-76 plane with rescuers and equipment and a Vo-105 search helicopter arrived in Indonesia. 21 members of the Centrospas Group, 3 psychologists, medical experts and 2 investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee arrived. They will be searching for flight recorders.
The SSJ-100 is the first Russian civil aircraft built in the last 20 years. It has visited six Asian states. It crashed during a demonstration flight on May 9. Vestnik Kavkaza reported earlier that the aircraft crashed into a volcano on Mount Salak, several kilometers away from Jakarta. The pilots requested permission to drop altitude from 10,000 feet to 6,000 feet just before the crash. Cloud density was low. It crashed into the volcano at an altitude of 1,500 meters.
