The search continued Tuesday for bodies and the “black box” from an Indonesian airliner that crashed in the Java Sea with 189 people aboard.
Hundreds of search-and-rescue personnel worked into Tuesday to find victims from JT610, a Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by the low-cost airline Lion Air. Rescuers handed 24 body bags to police, the National Search and Rescue Agency says. Others sorted through recovered materials, including passports and wallets.
“DNA samples have been taken from 132 family members of passengers on board to help with identification,” CNN reports. “The Jakarta police commissioner warned this could be difficult, and each body bag so far transferred could contain the remains of more than one person.”
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