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The Indonesian Ministry of Transport announced today, Saturday, that a plane belonging to “Sriwijaya” Indonesian Airlines has crashed near Lucky Island. The Navy confirmed that the location of the accident has been identified and rescue teams will begin searching for survivors.
The Indonesian Transport Minister said he lost contact with the unfortunate plane 4 minutes after it took off from Jakarta.
A spokeswoman for the Transport Ministry said earlier that the missing plane was carrying 62 people, after taking off from the Indonesian capital on a domestic flight. Adita Irawati said that a Boeing 737-500 took off from Jakarta around 1:56 p.m. and lost contact with the control tower at 2:40 p.m.
56 passengers and 6 crew
For its part, the airline said in a statement that the plane was flying a 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of the province of West Kalimantan on the Indonesian island of Borneo, with 56 passengers, including 10 children, and six crew members. on board, and noted that the plane was in good condition.
The Indonesian Navy also announced that it sent two ships to the alleged crash site.
While local media reported finding parts of the wreckage in North Jakarta, it is believed to be the plane, with some sites posting videos of what was said to be the crash.
In less than a minute
Additionally, the Flight Radar 24 aircraft tracking service on Twitter stated that the Indonesian plane had descended more than 10,000 feet from the altitude at which it was flying in less than a minute, just about four minutes after takeoff.
He explained that the registration details contained in the tracking data indicate that the Boeing 737-500 aircraft entered service 27 years ago.
It should be noted that Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago country with a population of more than 260 million people, constantly suffers from land, sea and air transport accidents due to overcrowding on ferries, old infrastructure and poor safety standards. .
