The Straits Times
Many still hope for good news; families asked to give info to help identify any bodies found
Ms Ratih Windania posted these photos on Instagram - with the caption Bye bye family. We re heading home for now - from Jakarta s airport just before the plane left the Indonesian capital last Saturday and crashed into the sea minutes after take-off, with 62 passengers and crew. PHOTO: RATIH WINDANIA/INSTAGRAM
PublishedJan 11, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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The retrieval of the black boxes from the wreckage of Indonesia s Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 will shed light on why the Boeing Co. 737-500 jet, a 27-year workhorse of the skies, plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after take off. Until that time, there are questions over what caused the tragedy. Human error, bad weather and equipment malfunction are all possibilities.
On paper at least, both pilots were highly experienced, in command of an aircraft with a relatively good safety record. Sriwijaya Air, despite being little known outside of Indonesia, has a solid history too, with no fatal accidents since its establishment in 2003.
A mother and her children send a final goodbye message while boarding on the ill-fated Indonesian plane, which crashed with 62 people on board.
As Daily Mail reports, heartbreaking final messages of passengers on the doomed flight have been revealed. The Indonesian plane crashed into the sea with dozens of people on board. While investigating, authorities have found two black boxes on the plane.
On Saturday, January 9, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 took off from Soekarno-Hatta international airport. What was expected to be a routine 90-minute flight over the Java Sea between Jakarta and Pofntianak in West Kalimantan turned into a tragedy.
Suddenly, at 2:40 pm, only four minutes after takeoff, the aircraft dropped 10,000ft in less than a minute. At this point, the Boeing B737-500 disappeared from the radar.