A passenger airplane has gone missing in Indonesia and search and rescue teams said they found some of the debris.
“Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta,” Flightradar24 tweeted Saturday morning.
Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.https://t.co/fNZqlIR2dz pic.twitter.com/MAVfbj73YN
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 9, 2021
The Boeing 737 disappeared off the coast of Indonesia as it flew over the Java Sea. The plane had taken off from the capital, Jakarta, and was on a domestic flight to Pontianak.
The Ministry of Transportation office in Jakarta confirmed that the flight lost contact after departing from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
A Sriwijaya Air plane connecting Jakarta to Pontianak” on the island of Borneo “lost contact” shortly after 2:30 p.m. local time, Transport Ministry spokesman Adita Irawati said. The low-cost company said it was investigating, as well as rescue. Boats were sent to the site of the probable crash, according to them.
According to data from the FlightRadar24 website, the aircraft reached an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet, or 3,350 meters, before dropping to 250 feet. He then lost contact with the control tower.
“Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 lost more than 10,000 feet in less than four minutes after leaving Jakarta,” the aviation site said on its official Twitter feed.
The Indonesian authorities fear a probable fall in the Java Sea.
“The missing plane is currently under investigation and under coordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency and the National Transportation Safety Committee,” they said in a statement.
Newsonspot.com.ng confirmed 62 people were on board: 56 passengers and six crew members.
Search and rescue teams were on the ground searching during the night. Officials said they expected the plane to be around Thousand Islands, an island chain located north of Jakarta’s coasts.
Before the teams called off their search for the night due to visibility issues, they found some plane debris and were still working on determining the exact coordinates where the plane crashed, officials said.
The first flight for this aircraft was in May 1994. It is 26 years old, Flightradar24 said.
“We are aware of media reports from Jakarta, and are closely monitoring the situation,” Boeing said in a statement. “We are working to gather more information.”
Overall, no problematic weather has been reported Saturday in the Indonesia. Satellite imagery over the Java Sea, north of Jakarta, shows no notable weather concerns where the plane lost contact with the radar. While there were some thunderstorms in the broader region, such weather is common in the area.
Black Sequence
In October 2018, 189 people died in a Boeing 737 MAX crash that crashed into the Java Sea some 12 minutes after takeoff. The airline industry in Indonesia has experienced regular tragedies in recent years, and several Indonesian airlines have been banned in Europe and the United States in the past.
In 2014, an AirAsia plane connecting the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore crashed with 162 passengers on board.
Investigators concluded that there were human errors and material problems.
Boeing had agreed to pay more than $ 2.5 billion to settle lawsuits in the case of two 737MAX crashes.
This is a developing story.
