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Rescue workers find body parts after airliner crashes
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Boeing 737 disappeared over Indonesia: 62 passengers on board
According to official information, an airliner operated by Indonesia Sriwijaya Air disappeared from radar after taking off from Jakarta. The Boeing 737-500 was heading to Pontianak on the island of Borneo.
Shortly after taking off from Jakarta, a 26-year-old 737 disappears from radar. A little later, the islanders find remains and to the west. According to speculation, there may have been an explosion.
northFollowing the alleged crash of an Indonesian airliner at sea, the police reported the discovery of body parts and belongings of the passengers. The body parts were found off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a police spokesman said on Metro TV. The machine of the Indonesian airline Sriwijaya Air with 62 people on board disappeared from radar on Saturday a few minutes after take-off and has been missing since.
“This morning we received two suitcases, one with the passengers’ belongings and the other with body parts,” said spokesman Yusri Yunus. Work is being done to identify victims.
Two years after the tragic accident of a Boeing 737 Max model in Indonesia, there is now a similar case. And again it seems that there have been deaths. But one after another.
A Boeing 737-500 operated by Sriwijaya Air took off from Jakarta airport at 2:40 pm local time. The plane was to take a 90-minute domestic flight from Jakarta to Pontianak on the island of Borneo. According to initial findings, there were 56 passengers and six crew members on board.
Police and their relatives await news of the missing Boeing at the destination airport in Pontianak.
Source: AFP
Less than five minutes after takeoff, the machine disappeared from radar screens. Radio data shows a dramatic loss of altitude for the aircraft. The machine had risen to a height of around 3.2 kilometers, but then quickly lost altitude within 20 seconds, as reported by the industry service “Aviation Herald”. The aircraft sent the last signal from a height of 400 meters.
Source: Infographic WORLD / Stephanie Kock
Shortly after the first reports of the machine’s disappearance, reports appeared of the discovery of debris and casualties at sea. About 19 kilometers from Jakarta airport. According to local media, residents of the nearby islands who were at sea in boats heard two explosions and found remains a little later.
As a result, seats, cables, bags and jeans were removed from the water. The crew of another ship found flight vests, body parts and debris. The water is between 15 and 16 meters deep at the site of the alleged accident. It is to be feared, as they say, that there are no survivors.
One of the basic rules is not to speculate hastily about the causes of air accidents. First, you have to find and read the flight recorders. The altitude drop, similar to a dive, does not indicate at least a failure of the two motors or an electrical problem. Industry blogs speculate on an explosion or mid-air collision. At least there are many indications that everything must have happened very quickly. Because there were no reports of an emergency radio message from the crew.
Two years ago it was a modern model made by the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing that crashed and killed 189 people. The machine that is now missing is a 26-year-old 737-500. For Indonesia’s third largest airline, Sriwijaya Air, it is the first major accident. However, there were always incidents during the landings.
The airline, founded in 2003, was also on a kind of blacklist from 2007 to 2018 with an operating ban in the European Union. For security reasons. In the fall of 2019, reports emerged that even the airline’s safety manager requested a temporary flight interruption due to safety concerns. A cooperation with Garunda airline was again resolved. More recently, the airline no longer wanted to rely solely on older, used and purchased Boeing models, but ordered new models of the 737 Max, which have yet to be delivered.
Two Boeing 737 Max aircraft accidents, in Indonesia in 2018 and in Ethiopia in 2019, led to a global flight ban for this modern generation. This flight stopover was recently lifted after a fundamental safety architecture overhaul, at least for the US Boeing initially incorporated a flight control and software program into the model that contributed to the two accidents using automatic maneuvers of ” nose down. ” Boeing has just agreed to a sort of settlement plus suspended sentence on a billions of payments with the US Department of Justice. The aircraft manufacturer had misled the flight safety authority with the approval of the 737-Max and blocked the investigation.
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