Rescuers searching for the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed into the ocean with 62 people on board on Saturday say they have located the plane's black box flight recorder and obtained communications data.
2021-01-10 07:05:47 GMT2021-01-10 15:05:47(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JAKARTA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) Divers on Sunday found a tire and more debris of Indonesia s Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed into the Java Sea off Jakarta, a rescuer and an official said.
A local TV footage showed rescuers lifting a tire of the Boeing 737-500 plane from the sea, and underwater equipment displaying a lot of debris of the ill-fated plane at the sea floor with the depth of 23 meters.
Spokesman of the National Search and Rescue Office (Basarnas) Yusuf Latief told Xinhua that some pieces of the debris have been collected from the scene.
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Search operation to find crashed Indonesian Sriwijaya Air plane underway
A massive search operation is underway in Indonesia to find the wreckage of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the capital Jakarta on Saturday with 62 people on board.
Sriwijaya Air flight 182 a Boeing 737-500 was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, when it lost contact at 2:40 p.m. local time (2:40 a.m. ET), 11 nautical miles north of Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. Four minutes into the flight, and amid heavy rains, the plane dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute before disappearing from the radar, according to the global flight tracking service Flightradar24.
WORLD / ASIA-PACIFIC By Xinhua Published: Jan 10, 2021 03:41 PM
Members of Search and Rescue (SAR) team conduct a search operation at the plane crash site of the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 in the waters of Lancang Island, Jan. 10, 2021. Indonesia s Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has confirmed the crash of a Boeing 737-500 plane of an Indonesian airlines with 62 people on board that lost contact with the air traffic controller on Saturday afternoon. At a virtual press conference held on Saturday evening, the minister said the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 heading from capital city Jakarta to Pontianak city in West Kalimantan province crashed into the waters off the Seribu District in north of Jakarta. According to him, the plane was believed to have crashed near the district s Laki Island and Lancang Island, part of the Thousand Islands chain. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)