ATR 42-500 Crash: Hope for a Miracle

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (basarnas) confirmed Tuesday that no survivors were found after an ATR 42-500 aircraft crashed in Maros, South Sulawesi.

Basarnas chief Air Marshal TNI M ⁤Syafi’i answered reporters’ questions about teh possibility of survivors. “There are none,” he said at the DPR building in Senayan, ‍Jakarta. “We were still hoping for a miracle, for survivors, but so far, nothing.”

Syafi’i acknowledged the grim reality but held onto⁢ a sliver of hope, recalling a previous aircraft crash where a passenger was ⁤found alive after initially appearing lifeless.

“There was a case where a passenger was in a comatose state,⁣ what some call ‘clinically dead,’ but they⁢ survived,” he said.

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