The team, composed of 10 Russian and 6 Indonesian volunteers, was flown to the crash site on Friday.
"The team will continue the search for the flight data recorder, which has not yet been found," On Search Commander (OSC) Col. Inf. AM Putranto, who is also the chief the Suryakancana Military Resort 016 of Bogor, said here on Saturday.
The joint team continued its search for the flight data recorder on Saturday, after it called off the search on Friday due to bad weather. Officials hope the flight data recorder will provide critical data from the plane moments before and after the crash.
The Russian team has been involved in the search for the flight data recorder for only three days. "We gave the Russian team three days to become involved in the operations, beginning on Friday when the evacuation of Sukhoi`s victims was officially brought to a close," Putranto said.
The joint SAR team for the evacuation of the victims was officially halted on Friday, though the operations are to continue on a regional basis by Military Resort 061, assisted by the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) and local police.
The operation has no deadline.(*)
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