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.
The plane departed from the Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta at 2.36 p.m. local time. According to Sumadi, the last contact with the plane was made by aviation authorities four minutes after its takeoff.
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The Boeing 737-500 with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after take-off from Jakarta, officials said.
Officials were hopeful that they were honing-in on the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 after sonar equipment detected a signal from the aircraft.
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi told reporters that authorities have launched massive search efforts after identifying the possible location of the crash site .
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Search teams fill two body bags with remains of crashed Sriwijaya Air plane s victims on Jan 10, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesian search teams on Sunday recovered remains and properties at the site of a crashed Sri Wijaya Air jet that plunged into Java sea with 62 people aboard shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Saturday afternoon.
Search teams filled two body bags with limbs and other human remains and sent them to Kramat Jati Police Hospital in East Jakarta, Senior Commissioner Yusri Yuni, spokesman of the Jakarta Metro Jaya Police, said at the Integrated SAR Command Post located in the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JIC) 2, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Sunday.
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.