A Lion
Air Boeing 737 passenger plane with 188 people on board has crashed into the
sea just after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
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Flight JT 610 took off since Jakarta at 06:20 local time on Monday morning
(23:30 GMT on Sunday).
It was due to reach at Depati Amir airport
in Pangkal Pinang an hour later but about 13 minutes into the flight, establishments
lost contact with the plane.
The pilot had asked to return to Jakarta's
Soekarno-Hatta airport, the head of Pangkal Pinang's hunt and rescue office,
Danang Priandoko, told local news outlet Kompas.
A nearside
plane loud 189 people has stopped
into the sea off Jakarta, minutes after take-off.
“It has been confirmed that it has
crashed,” Yusuf
Latif, a spokesman for the country’s search and rescue agency, said on Monday
by text message, when asked about the fate of the plane.
It lost interaction
with ground control a few proceedings after take-off, and was last chased
crossing the sea - it is unclear if there are any stayers. The air-plane was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, a brand new type of
aircraft.
"The plane crashed into water
about 30 to 40m cavernous," Search and Rescue Agency spokesman Yusuf Latif
told AFP news agency. "We're still thorough for the leftovers of the
plane."
Reports conventional
at Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta designated the leftovers of the plane
had been dotted. Wreckage had been found near where the plane misplaced contact
with air traffic officials on the crushed, said Muhmmad Syaugi, the head of the search and rescue agency.
“We don’t know yet whether there are
any survivors,”
Syaugi told a newscast, adding that no pain signal had been conventional from
the aircraft’s emergency radar teller.
“We hope, we pray, but we cannot
confirm.”
Indonesia’s tragedy
agency orator posted video of some debris on Twitter.
“We will collect all
data from the controller tower,” said Soerjanto Tjahjono. “The plane is so
modern, it transmits data from the plane and that we will review too. But the
most vital is the blackbox.”
The chance
is the first to be reported that includes the widely-sold Boeing 737 MAX, an
updated, more fuel-efficient version of the manufacturer’s rock single-aisle
jet. The first Boeing 737 MAX jets were presented into facility in 2017.