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Local fishermen found some items suspected of being the remains of passenger planes and turned them over to search and rescue authorities.
A Boeing 737 passenger jet in Indonesia crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta on Saturday (January 9). Indonesian authorities said they had located what they believed to be the accident.
The Sriwijaya Air passenger plane carrying 62 people took off from Jakarta to Pontianak in West Kalimantan, but disappeared from radar four minutes after departure.
On Sunday, a signal was detected that is believed to have come from an airliner’s recorder.
Currently, more than 10 ships have been dispatched to the site, accompanied by naval divers.
“We detect signals at two fixed points, which may be black doors,” said Bagus Puruhito, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue authorities.
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These objects are believed to be fragments of the lost plane.
Investigators are also looking at what they think is from the wreckage of a passenger plane, including a wheel, and what they said could be part of the fuselage.
Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus said two packages have been received from search and rescue authorities.
“The first bag contained the passenger’s belongings and the other bag contained the remains of the body,” he told reporters. “We are still determining the specific attributes of these items.”
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Indonesian investigators investigated the remains believed to be from a missing passenger plane.
The search and rescue operation was suspended on Saturday night and continued on Sunday morning. Authorities have dispatched four planes to assist in the search.
The missing airliner is not the 737 Max model that Boeing grounded between March and December 2019 due to two fatal accidents.
What happened so far
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Authorities have dispatched four planes to assist in the search.
The Srivijaya passenger jet took off from Jakarta International Airport at 2:36 p.m. local time (7:36 GMT) on Saturday.
According to the country’s Ministry of Transport, 2:40 p.m. later was the last signal of contact of the passenger plane on the record. The call sign was SJY182.
Flight time from Jakarta to Pontianak in West Borneo is typically 90 minutes.
According to Bagus, head of the Air Force’s National Search and Rescue Administration, the airliner has not issued a distress signal.
According to the flight-tracking website Flightradar24.com, the airliner is currently believed to have dropped more than 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) in less than a minute.
Witnesses said they saw and heard at least one explosion.
Fisherman Solihin told the BBC Indonesia Department that he had seen the accident and that his captain decided to return to land.
“The plane hit the sea like lightning and exploded in the water,” he said. “He was closer to us and the plywood shards almost hit my boat.”
On an island near the disappearance of the passenger plane, some residents told the BBC that they had found some objects that they believed came from the passenger plane.
Who is on the plane?
There are currently believed to be 50 passengers on board, including seven children and three babies, and 12 crew members, while the plane seats 130 people. Officials said all on board were Indonesian.
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Relatives of the passengers have been waiting anxiously at the Pontianak Airport and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
Relatives of the passengers have been waiting anxiously at Pontianak Airport and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
“I have four family members on the flight: my wife and my three children,” Yaman Zai told reporters in tears.
“(My wife) sent me a picture of a baby today … How can my heart not break into pieces?”
Related Background
According to the registration information, the airliner is a 26-year-old Boeing 737-500 airliner.
Jefferson Irwin Jauwena, CEO of Three Foz Airways, told the media that the plane was in good condition. He said that due to heavy rain, the flight was delayed for 30 minutes.
Established in 2003, Sanfoqi Airlines is a local low-cost airline that operates flights to Indonesia and other destinations in Southeast Asia.
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The Sanfoqi Airlines passenger plane disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff. (Profile picture)
The airliner lost contact about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the capital Jakarta, not far from where another airliner crashed in October 2018.
At that time, Indonesia Lion Air crashed into the sea about 12 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing 189 people.
The accident was attributed to a number of problems in the aircraft’s design, as well as errors by airlines and pilots.
It was one of two accidents that caused regulators to suspend flight services on the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. After the reorganization of the system, the aircraft flew again in December last year.
The BBC Jakarta correspondent Jerome Wirawan (Jerome Wirawan) said that the latest incident will cause great doubts and emotions in Indonesia. Since the Lion Air accident, the country’s aviation industry has come under close scrutiny. .
