January 17, 2021
JAKARTA (AP) A team from the United States (US) National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has arrived in Indonesia’s capital to join the investigation into the crash of a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee said yesterday.
The team also comprises representatives from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boeing and General Electric. They joined personnel from Singapore’s Transportation Safety Investigation Bureau at the search and rescue command centre at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta to see some of the plane debris.
The plane lost contact with air traffic controllers minutes after taking off from Jakarta during heavy rain on January 9. The jet crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 62 people on board.