Minister Sumadi asked to coordinate search for plane crash victims 12th January 2021
Transportation Minister, Budi Karya Sumadi, meets families of the victims of the Sriwijaya plane crash at Terminal 2D of the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on January 11, 2021. (ANTARA/HO-Kemenhub/aa) (Handout Kementian Perhubungan)
We, along with the military chief, police chief, Jakarta Metropolitan Police chief, Jakarta regional military command chief, naval chief of staff, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), chief of the National Committee for Transpor Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi to coordinate the search for the victims and the black box of the crashed Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 with immediate effect.
A mother and her children send a final goodbye message while boarding on the ill-fated Indonesian plane, which crashed with 62 people on board.
As Daily Mail reports, heartbreaking final messages of passengers on the doomed flight have been revealed. The Indonesian plane crashed into the sea with dozens of people on board. While investigating, authorities have found two black boxes on the plane.
On Saturday, January 9, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 took off from Soekarno-Hatta international airport. What was expected to be a routine 90-minute flight over the Java Sea between Jakarta and Pofntianak in West Kalimantan turned into a tragedy.
Suddenly, at 2:40 pm, only four minutes after takeoff, the aircraft dropped 10,000ft in less than a minute. At this point, the Boeing B737-500 disappeared from the radar.
Indonesian divers searched waters off Jakarta Monday for black boxes from a passenger jet that crashed at the weekend with 62 people aboard, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims remains.
Investigators in Indonesia are hopeful of discovering the reason why a Boeing 737 with 62 people on board crashed into the sea, after divers yesterday located the plane’s black boxes.
The Sriwijaya Air flight took off from the capital, Jakarta, on Saturday afternoon but soon went into a deep dive into the Java Sea.
There was no sign of any survivors among the 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Ten of the passengers were children.
After almost a day of searching by helicopters and warships, rescuers identified the location of the crash site and the plane’s flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder – otherwise known as the black boxes. A navy ship had detected emergency signals sent out by the boxes. Hadi Tjahjanto, Indonesia’s armed forces commander, said they hoped they could lift the black boxes out soon.