SEMARANG - The remains of Sumayani (33), one of the airhosteses of the Merpati Nusantara Airlines MA-60 who was killed in the plane crash in the Kaimana waters, West Papua, arrived at the house of mourning on Monday at 5 am on board a Al Irsyad hospital ambulance. Earlier, the victim’s remains was placed in an Indonesian flag-covered closed coffin flown from Sorong to Makassar and then to Surabaya.
Representatives of Merpati Nusantara Airlines and a number of the victim’s friends came to the house of mourning to express their deepest condolences to the bereaved. According to plan, before being buried at a public cemetery in Pedurungan, Semarang, on the same day at 10 am, the victim’s body will be laid in state and prayed for at a mosque not far from the house of mourning.
Merpati Nusantara Airlines cabin crew manager Sudiyarto said the late airhostess had served the airline company for seven years and known as one of the company’s best airhosteses. Sumayani was the first of three children of Suratmi and late Samim, who married Ranu Adhi (32) in September 2006, but still childless.
Merpati Nusantara Airlines MA-60 crashed from an altitude of 15,000 feet into the sea near Kaimana airport, West Papua province, last Saturday at 2 pm local time in bad weather. The plane was flying from Sorong to Kaimana when it went down killing 18 adult passengers, a boy, and two babies.
source : kompas.com
