President Joko Widodo has extended deep condolences over Sriwijaya Air plane crash in the waters of Seribu Islands on Saturday.
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Marine Corps SAR fields divers to help search for Sriwijaya plane 10th January 2021
Search and Rescue (SAR) divers of the Indonesian Navy s Amphibious Recon Battalion were about to search for the debris of Sriwijaya plane in the waters of Seribu Islands on Sunday (Jan 10, 2021). ANTARA/Fauzi Lamboka
May the search be successful Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Search and Rescue (SAR) Team of the Marine Amphibious Recon Battalion (Yontaifib) of the Indonesian Navy has fielded 14 divers to help search for passengers and debris of Sriwijaya plane that crashed in the waters of Seribu Islands on Saturday.
The 14 divers are divided into two teams, Commander of the SAR Team First Lieutenant Sofi Rahmadani Ilmi said aboard the Indonesian Warship KRI Teluk Gilimanuk-531 on Sunday..
English By Eva Mazrieva, VOA Indonesian Service Updated January 10, 2021 06:30 AM Share on Facebook Print this page JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian aviation authorities said Sunday they had located the two black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday.
Speaking to reporters, Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia s transport safety agency said that divers would look for them, hoping to retrieve them soon.
The devices contain recordings of cockpit voice and flight data could help officials understand why the Boeing 737-500 with 62 people on board crashed.
An official with Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, Bambang Suryo Aji, confirmed earlier that wreckage had been found from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane.
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BANGKOK A passenger jet carrying more than 60 people crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday, minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Indonesian officials said, bringing renewed attention to a nation long cursed by aviation disasters.
The fate of the plane, a Boeing 737-500, also carried the potential to ensnare the troubled American aviation giant in more bad publicity, even though the cause of the crash had yet to be determined.
Indonesia’s Transportation Ministry said that the last contact with the plane, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, was at 2:40 p.m. local time. The plane was bound for the city of Pontianak on the island of Borneo. It had 62 people aboard, according to the Transportation Ministry. Four minutes after taking off amid a heavy monsoon season rain, following a bad weather delay, the 26-year-old plane lost more than 10,000 feet in altitude in less than 60 seconds, according to Flightradar24, the flight-tracking service.