Wife in Jayapura to bring husband’s body home

THE body of Captain Leslie Sefuve who died in a plane crash in Indonesia on Saturday is now in Jayapura after being retrieved from the crash site in Oksibil.
PNG Consul-General Colonel Jeffery Wiri said the bodies of Sefuve and the other seven victims were flown to Jayapura at 3pm on Monday.
Wiri said Sefuve’s wife and a pilot had arrived in Jayapura from PNG. His body is expected to arrive in Port Moresby tomorrow. “Our office in Jayapura is coordinating the repatriation of the body.”
He said the late pilot’s relatives wanted the body to be in Port Moresby for a few days before his final journey home to Eastern Highlands.
The pilot had one month left in his contract with an Indonesia-based airline Dimonim Air. His permit was to expire on Sept 10. It is understood that Sefuve had been working for the airline for less than two years.
The Twin Otter aircraft had left Tanah Merah airport at about 1.42pm on Saturday on what should have been a 42-minute trip to Oksibil. Captain Sefuve had contacted the control tower in Oksibil 11 minutes before arriving. Contact was lost after that call.
The wreckage was discovered by locals on Sunday morning.