Two of their family members have been found so far. A total of 37 bodies have been recovered out of 162 passengers and crew members on board the AirAsia flight.
We were invited to a Surabaya funeral home where the family held a visitation for The Meiji Thejakusuma and her daughter, Stevie Gunaman. Stevie had just turned 10, two weeks before the flight.
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They told me it’s like a nightmare you can’t wake up from.
The Meiji was going to spend her 46th birthday in Singapore. Instead, her birthday was the day her body was found.