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Indonesian police confirmed on Sunday (local time, Saturday night in Brazil) that parts of belongings and bodies were found in the coastal area of the country where the Boeing 737-500 of the local company Sriwijawa disappeared with 62 people on board.
“This morning we received two suitcases, one with the passengers’ belongings and the other with body parts,” Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus told Metro TV. Police “are working to identify them,” he added.
Rescue boats, army, helicopters and divers were dispatched to the scene after the objects and victims were located to continue the search for survivors. The materials are being taken to the main port of Jakarta, where a first aid post has been set up.
The army reported that a Boeing emergency signal was detected at sea and teams wait find the plane’s black box.
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According to the specialized website FlightRadar24, the plane took flight 182 and lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than a minute as he heads to the town of Pontianak on the island of Borneo. Around 4:40 am (Brasilia time; 2:40 pm in Jakarta), the Boeing disappeared.
The trip would take about an hour and a half. There were 50 passengers and 12 crew members on the plane.
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There is no evidence to determine the causes. The airline’s CEO said the plane was in good condition.
The aircraft first flew in May 1994. Boeing 737-500 aircraft have a safety record that is considered excellent. No Brazilian airline with scheduled flights currently operates this model; Between the 1990s and 2000s, companies such as Rio Sul and Nordeste, now defunct, operated these aircraft.
It is, therefore, a model well before the 737 MAX, a line of Boeing aircraft that suffered two serious accidents recently. One, with a Lion Air plane in 2018, took place in Indonesia.
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The tragedies caused the interruption of flights with such aircraft. Only at the end of last year did the aviation authorities begin to allow the resumption of operations with the 737 MAX.
Boeing 737-500 of NAM Air, a subsidiary of Sriwijaya Air. The photographed model is the same one that disappeared from the radars this Saturday (9) – Photo: Playback / Sriwijaya Air
MAP: Location of the disappearance of the Sriwijaya Air aircraft in Indonesia – Photo: G1 Mundo
MAP: Planned route of flight SJ182, missing in Indonesia – Photo: G1 World
INFOGRAPHIC: Boeing 737-500, model of the plane that crashed in Indonesia this Saturday (9) – Photo: Guilherme Pinheiro / Arte / G1
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