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Pregnant Mother, Family of 5 and a Father on Business Trip Among Victims of Indonesia Plane Crash
Rescuers inspect wreckage found in the waters around the location where a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff, at the search and rescue command center at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
There were 50 passengers 43 adults and 7 children on board, as well as 12 crew members, according to Indonesia s minister of transportation.
Family members gathered at a victim identification center in Jakarta and at a crisis center in Pontianak, where they waited for any news of their loved ones. Here s what we know about the victims so far.
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency team was continuing a search operation for the 62 people aboard Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff Saturday. The Boeing 737-500 plane was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on the Indonesian side 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. There.