<p>The first victim of the AirAsia plane crash was today identified as a female flight attendant as authorities conducted forensic examination of two of the nine bodies recovered from the Java Sea.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hayati Lutfiah Hamid's body was returned to her family after her identity was confirmed by fingerprints and personal belongings, Colonel Budiyono of East Java's Disaster Victim Identification Unit said.<br /><br />Her body was retrieved from the Karimata Strait.<br /><br />Budiyono said the fingerprints, as well as scars from surgery, matched the ante-mortem data and information, Jakarta Post reported.<br /><br />"An ID card with the name Hayati Lutfiah was also found in the clothes of the body labelled B001 when the search and rescue team found it. She was also wearing a necklace with her initial on it and a bracelet that family members confirmed belonged to Hayati," he told journalists in Surabaya, East Java, at a press conference.<br /><br />The team, however, is yet to identify the second body, labelled B002, as there is currently insufficient data to identify it.<br /><br />He said B002 was a young Mongoloid man of 145-150 centimetres height, with black hair no longer than six cm, with a mole on his left shoulder.<br /><br />"We have also received four more bodies, two men and two women; we are currently examining them," he said.<br /><br />Nearly three days after the Singapore-bound plane went off the radar, its debris was found on Tuesday in the Karimata Strait near Pangkalanbun, Central Kalimantan.<br /><br />The plane was carrying 155 passengers -- one British, one Malaysian, one Singaporean, three South Koreans, 149 Indonesians -- and seven crew members -- six Indonesians and a French co-pilot. Seventeen of the passengers were children. <br /></p>
<p>The first victim of the AirAsia plane crash was today identified as a female flight attendant as authorities conducted forensic examination of two of the nine bodies recovered from the Java Sea.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hayati Lutfiah Hamid's body was returned to her family after her identity was confirmed by fingerprints and personal belongings, Colonel Budiyono of East Java's Disaster Victim Identification Unit said.<br /><br />Her body was retrieved from the Karimata Strait.<br /><br />Budiyono said the fingerprints, as well as scars from surgery, matched the ante-mortem data and information, Jakarta Post reported.<br /><br />"An ID card with the name Hayati Lutfiah was also found in the clothes of the body labelled B001 when the search and rescue team found it. She was also wearing a necklace with her initial on it and a bracelet that family members confirmed belonged to Hayati," he told journalists in Surabaya, East Java, at a press conference.<br /><br />The team, however, is yet to identify the second body, labelled B002, as there is currently insufficient data to identify it.<br /><br />He said B002 was a young Mongoloid man of 145-150 centimetres height, with black hair no longer than six cm, with a mole on his left shoulder.<br /><br />"We have also received four more bodies, two men and two women; we are currently examining them," he said.<br /><br />Nearly three days after the Singapore-bound plane went off the radar, its debris was found on Tuesday in the Karimata Strait near Pangkalanbun, Central Kalimantan.<br /><br />The plane was carrying 155 passengers -- one British, one Malaysian, one Singaporean, three South Koreans, 149 Indonesians -- and seven crew members -- six Indonesians and a French co-pilot. Seventeen of the passengers were children. <br /></p>