Indonesian Sriwijaya Air 737-500 goes missing after taking off from Jakarta
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Indonesian officials have located debris but cannot yet confirm if it s from the Sriwijaya Air flight.
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A search is underway after suspected debris from an Indonesian Sriwijaya Air flight was found hours after the plane went missing.
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The aircraft was a 27-year-old Boeing 737-500
Several locals claim to have found what appeared to be wreckage of an aircraft
The plane lost contact after taking off from Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday en route to the city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan province.
Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea By Associated Press | January 9, 2021 at 5:46 AM CST - Updated January 10 at 5:57 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) â Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesiaâs capital.
The head of Indonesiaâs National Search and Rescue Agency, Bagus Puruhito, said officials believe they identified the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder â the so-called black boxes â because emergency signals transmitted by the devices were detected by a navy shipâs sonar system.
Indonesia's military chief says divers have spotted parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed.
Indonesia’s Transportation Ministry says Sriwijaya Air lost contact with one of its passenger planes shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday.
Flight SJ182 was on route to Pontianak on the island of Borneo. More than 50 people were on board the plane, officials said.
Flightradar24, the flight tracking service, said the Boeing 737 “lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.”
“The missing plane is currently under investigation and under coordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency and the National Transportation