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During the search for the airliner with 62 people on board, which has been missing in Indonesia since Saturday, body parts and other debris were discovered at sea. The head of the Jakarta Police Department’s medical department said he had received bags containing items believed to have been removed from the plane and human remains. “One contained body parts,” said Umar Shahab.
In addition, divers discovered other debris on Sunday, including parts of the registration number, as said by the chief of the armed forces, Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto.
“We received a report from the dive team that underwater visibility was good, which allowed the discovery of various parts of the aircraft,” he added. The search and rescue agency’s chief of operations, Bambang Suryo Aji, had previously reported that debris believed to have come from the plane had been found. An accident has not yet been officially confirmed.
It disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff.
On Saturday, a local Sriwijaya Air passenger plane with 62 people on board disappeared from radar shortly after take-off in Jakarta and likely crashed into the sea. The Boeing 737-500 was heading to Pontianak on the island of Borneo when it suddenly disappeared from radar at 2:40 p.m. local time (8:40 CET). According to the information, there were 50 passengers in the machine, including seven children and three babies, in addition to twelve crew members.
Military divers were used in the search Sunday. The plane is suspected of being in the area whose coordinates were given during the last contact, said the chief of the armed forces, Air Marshal Tjahjanto. Various warships and helicopters would also be used in the search. The debris was reportedly discovered near the islands of Laki Island and Lancang Island. The two islands are part of the Thousand Islands group off the coast of Java.
The flight time to Pontianak in Kalimantan Barat province is just over an hour. As data from the Swedish Internet service Flightradar24 shows, the plane lost more than 3,300 meters of altitude in one minute, just four minutes after takeoff. Then the trail was lost in the sea north of the main island of Java.
Unsafe aviation on the island paradise
The Boeing was reportedly 27 years old and owned by Sriwijaya Air since 2012. In aviation terms, the island paradise of Southeast Asia is one of the most unsafe countries in the world.
In 2018, a Boeing 737 Max from the Indonesian company Lion Air crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta. All 189 inmates died. In 2014, an Airbus A320 from low-cost airline Indonesia AirAsia crashed into the sea on its way from Surabaya in Java to Singapore. Here too, all 162 people died on board.
