WRAP Aviation chief says search intensifies, pilot continues personal search

Описание: (8 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
Jakarta
1. Wide of Indonesian Transportation Ministry
2. Set up shot of National Aviation Chief Iksan Tatang
3. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Iksan Tatang, National Aviation Chief:
"We are intensifying the search and rescue operation without being limited by a procedural deadline of one week. The president has stressed that we must intensify the search until we find the plane."
4. Cutaway of plane model
5. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Iksan Tatang, National Aviation Chief:
"According to public health guidelines, people usually survive seven days at sea. But we still don't know where the plane has crashed. If the passengers had been trapped inside the plane, they may not survive even one day."
6. Wide of Tatang sitting
Makassar
7. Various of First Lieutenant Lucky Setiandika standing with colleague
8. Wide of Navy plane on tarmac
9. View from plane window as it takes off
10. Cockpit
11. Close-up of map
12. Mid of pilot writing on map
13. Various aerials of search area
11. Various of Setiandika on plane, looking out through plane window
15. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) First Lieutenant Setiandika, Indonesian Navy:
"I asked God to show me where she is, where is the location of the plane. Every time I cry I always call her: Where are you? I am coming for you!"
13. Various of photographs of Ellen Dwi Sutanti, Setiandika's wife
16. Wide of Setiandika holding GPS (global Positioning System) and writing on piece of paper
17. Close-up of drawing from Setiandika's spiritual advisor believed to be showing location of plane
18. Wide of Setiandika walking towards plane
STORYLINE
Search operations intensified around Sulawesi island on Monday for signs of a jetliner that disappeared a week ago with 102 people on board, as a sonar-equipped US Navy ship headed to the area and Indonesian officials were simulating possible crash scenarios.
The Boeing 737 last made contact before falling off the radar over the western coastal town of Majene on New Year's Day.
The Adam Air plane left Java island for the North Sulawesi provincial capital of Manado but experienced 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour) winds and storms halfway through the two-hour flight, forcing it to change course at least twice, officials said.
But the pilot did not issue a Mayday or report technical problems.
Speaking in Jakarta, Iksan Tatang, National Aviation Chief, said on Monday that they were "intensifying the search and rescue operation without being limited by a procedural deadline."
He said that although people can usually survive seven days at sea, they may not survive "even one day" if they have been trapped inside the plane.
For an Indonesian Navy lieutenant, the search for the Adam Air jetliner is even more heart-breaking - his wife was a passenger on the missing aircraft.
First Lieutenant Lucky Setiandika flies every day, scanning the remote mountainous terrain for signs of the plane.
Lucky and Ellen Dwi Sutanti were married just two months before the incident.
Setiandika's wife was due to celebrate her 26th birthday on 4 January.
Setiandika carries a drawing from spiritual advisor as he searches - he believes it shows the location of the missing plane.
"Where are you? I'm here, please give me a sign," he said as he scanned the thick vegetation below with tears in his eyes.
With no emergency location signal to guide more than 3,600 soldiers, police and volunteers searching in the island's dense jungles and surrounding seas, teams have fanned out over a nearly 80-thousand square kilometre (30-thousand square miles) area.
Keyword- aircraft crash - aviation

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