Divers have seen parts of the wreck – VG

According to the AP news agency, early Sunday morning, body parts, clothing and remains were found in Lake Javasjøen.

The divers are also said to have observed parts of the wreck at a depth of 23 meters.

– We receive messages from the dive team that the water is clear and that you have good visibility, which means that you have been able to detect parts of the aircraft. We are sure this is the place where the plane crashed, says foreland air force commander Hadi Tjahjanto in a statement.

Search work has been intense in the sea area after Indonesia lost contact with Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 at 2:40 p.m. local time on Saturday. since

62 people were aboard the Boeing 737-500 airliner, and several of them are said to be children.

– Probably, together with several other actors, we have found the place where the accident occurred. On that occasion, we would like to express our great regret for this tragedy, said Transport Minister Budi Karaya Sumadi at a press conference on Sunday morning local time.

Then the search in the great maritime zone was recently resumed, having been stopped overnight, he writes CNN Indonesia.

The Indonesian national search and rescue team, Basarnas, is responsible for the search. They said Saturday night they would search further afield and below the surface of the water, Reuters reports.

At 04.13 Norwegian time, rescue teams report that they have detected signals that they believe may be coming from the aircraft.

– We have detected signals in two places. This may be the black box we want to investigate, says Bagus Puruhito, who is leading the rescue efforts according to Reuters.

Fell 10,000 feet

The plane is said to have been near the Thousand Islands in Kepulaun Seribu when contact with the ground was broken, and the Transport Minister says the search will continue in full force until Sunday.

Information from Flightradar shows that a low-cost airline Sriwijaya Boeing 737 aircraft took off from Jakarta airport at 07.37 a.m. on Saturday morning Norwegian time. The plane is 26 years old, according to Flightradar.

The plane was heading to Pontianak on Borneo in Indonesia, a journey that normally takes around 90 minutes.

Contact was broken four minutes after the plane took off from Jakarta, Flightradar writes on Twitter. The plane is said to have dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute prior to this, according to the website.

According to Reuters, Sriwijaya Air airline chief Jefferson Irwin Jauwena says the plane leaving the capital was in good condition.

It also says the plane was 30 minutes late before it could take off due to heavy rain.

– We are aware of reports from Jakarta about Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182. Our thoughts go out to the crew, the passengers and their families. We are in contact with our customers and are ready to help them at this difficult time, writes the aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a statement reproduced by AP.

Fishermen: Heard explosion

The crews of two fishing vessels told CNN Indonesia they heard an explosion in the area at the same time the plane disappeared from radar.

Local fishermen are participating in the search work and have found several of the possible remains, reports AP.

– We heard something explode, we thought it was a bomb or a tsunami because we saw a big splash from the sea shortly after, fisherman Solihin tells AP, adding that shortly after they saw what they think are debris from the nearby plane. of your ship.

Just over two years ago, in October 2018, a Lion Air plane crashed on the outskirts of Indonesia just twelve minutes after takeoff from Jakarta. 189 people lost their lives in the accident. The plane was a Boeing 737 Max plane, the same plane that was also the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019. However, it is not this type of plane that is missing in Indonesia now.