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Sriwijaya air flight SJ182- Boeing 737 loses contact in Indonesia
“Suspected debris” has been found in waters close to Jakarta after officials lost contact with a Boeing 737 near the Indonesian capital, prompting fears for the 62 people onboard the domestic flight.
Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 departed Jakarta for Pontianak on the island of Borneo at 2.36pm (7.36am GMT) but went missing over the Java Sea just minutes after take-off, dropping less than 10,000 feet in a minute, according to FlightRadar24.
An Indonesian Transport Ministry spokesperson said it is investigating the plane’s disappearance with search and rescue agency Basarnas and the nation’s transport safety committee, KNKT.
Islanders pull debris from water
Footage shows residents in the Thousand Islands archipelago pulling wires and other debris from the water during a reported search mission near Lancang Island.
“We found some cables, a piece of jeans, and pieces of metal on the water,” Zulkifli, a security official, told CNN Indonesia.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 12:49
Boeing ‘working to gather more information’
“We are aware of media reports from Jakarta, and are closely monitoring the situation. We are working to gather more information,” a Boeing spokesperson has told Reuters.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 12:36
At least 50 people searching into the night, Basarnas official says
With darkness having fallen in Java, rescue agency official Agus Haryono told Reuters that 50 people were taking part in the search and that they would keep working into the night.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 12:31
Indonesia has been plagued by transportation accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries, ageing infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.
In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet operated by Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
It was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people were killed on a Garuda flight near Medan on Sumatra island, and was the first of two tragedies that led to the 20-month grounding of the Max.
In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing 162 people.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 12:26
Breaking: ‘Suspected debris’ found in waters north of Jakarta, Basarnas says
Rescuers have found “suspected debris” in waters north of the city, an official of the Basarnas search and rescue agency said.
Agus Haryono told Reuters it had not been confirmed that the debris came from Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 12:00
Search and rescue agency investigating disappearance
“The missing plane is currently under investigation and under coordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency and the National Transportation Safety Committee,” Indonesian Transportation Ministry spokesperson Adita Irawati said in a statement.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 11:57
Aircraft ‘dropped 10,000ft in one minute’, tracker says
Tracking data for the flight shows that it dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute at the time it is believed to have lost contact, according to FlightRadar24.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 11:51
56 passengers and 6 crew onboard, airline says
A statement released by Sriwijaya Air said the plane was on an estimated 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province.
There were 56 passengers and six crew members onboard.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 11:48
Signal was lost four minutes after takeoff, flight tracker says
According to data from FlightRadar24, the plane lost contact just four minutes after take-off.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 11:45
Here’s the full report on the missing flight from our travel correspondent Simon Calder.
He writes that Airfleets.net shows the missing plane as being delivered to Continental Airlines in the US in May 1994. It joined the Sriwijaya Air fleet in 2012.
Andy Gregory9 January 2021 11:34
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