She and her four sisters have been waiting for news of their only brother, Saiful Rakhmad, a father of three children.
More than two weeks after the plane went down, searchers located the majority of Flight QZ8501’s fuselage on Wednesday, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said.
The discovery, made using a remotely operated underwater vehicle, has raised the prospect that many of the bodies of the 162 people aboard the flight could soon be found.
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The final report containing investigators’ full conclusions is expected to take many more months to complete.
Nunung says she will nonetheless “keep monitoring” the situation, “because I want to know why the plane my brother was on crashed.”
Journalist Rudy Madanir reported from Jakarta, and CNN’s Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong. CNN’s David Molko and Jason Hanna contributed to this report.
