Name: Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air plane feared to have crashed after taking off from Jakarta
Uploaded: 2021-01-11T22:17:46+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Description: A Sriwijaya Air plane carrying 62 people on board is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to Indonesia's Head Of National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto C

3 years ago

A Sriwijaya Air plane carrying 62 people on board is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to Indonesia's Head Of National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono.

Sriwijaya Air flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday.

The airline said in a statement that the plane was on an estimated 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Indonesia’s Borneo island.

The plane was carrying 50 passengers and 12 crew members, all Indonesian nationals, including six extra crew for another trip.

The Indonesian Navy has deployed five warships and diving troops in the search, according to Rear Admiral Abdul Rasyid.

A coast guard captain with Indonesia's Transportation Ministry said an emergency evacuation slide from a Boeing 737 has been found at sea in the location near the site where the crash is thought to have happened.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/asia/indonesia-sriwijaya-air-plane-intl/index.html

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/indonesian-airliner-loses-contact-domestic-112123174.html

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/01/09/boeing-737-indonesia-plane-crash-suspected-sriwijaya-air-flight-182/6607773002/

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