Indonesia - Boeing 737 with 62 aboard missing, Jan 2021

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Search and rescue investigation is underway after contact was lost with Sriwijaya Air Flight SJY 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak

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BREAKING The last contact was at 07:40UTC after a drop from 10,900 ft to 7,650ft

Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air plane loses contact after taking off from Jakarta - CNN

Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday, according to state-run Antara news agency.
In a statement, Sriwijaya Air said that they were "in contact with various related parties to get more detailed information" regarding the incident and that they will "immediately issue an official statement" when more information was clear.
Flight SJY 182 lost contact 11 nautical miles north of Jakarta's Soekarno--Hatta International Airport at an altitude of 11,000 feet while climbing to 13,000 feet, Antara reported.


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Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air lost contact with a plane that left Jakarta, an official says. Search and rescue has sent a ship to the location where the plane is suspected to have lost contact.

 

[Really?]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

so so sad. Is this one of the airplanes recently grounded?

RIP to all on board.

 

[Eloise]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

so so sad. Is this one of the airplanes recently grounded?

RIP to all on board.

No, it's not a 737 MAX

 

[margarita25]

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“The plane, registered PK CLC, is a Boeing 737-500. The aircraft is 26 years old, according to Flightradar24.“

Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air plane loses contact after taking off from Jakarta - CNN

 

[margarita25]

“The plane dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute before disappearing from the radar, according to the global flight tracking service Flightradar24. The drop happened about four minutes after takeoff, it said.“

A Flightradar24 map shows the moment Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 lost contact on Saturday.

Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air plane loses contact after taking off from Jakarta - CNN

 

[margarita25]

Indonesian passenger jet missing after taking off from Jakarta

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Indonesian Jetliner Crashes Into the Sea After Takeoff

 

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Boeing 737 passenger jet missing after losing contact near Jakarta
''In a leaked internal letter in September 2019, Sriwijaya Air's quality, safety and security director had recommended that the airline stopped operations until it improved safety standards, according to the Jakarta Post.''
Indonesia jet carrying 62 goes missing on domestic flight - CityNews Toronto

This radar image shows the flight path of Indonesian Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 before it dropped off radar, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. The Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Saturday on a domestic flight, officials said. (Flightradar24.com via AP) Courtesy Flightradar24.com
UPDATED..
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/indonesia-plane-1.5867360
''The Indonesian Navy has determined the co-ordinates of a Sriwijaya Air plane carrying 62 people that went missing Saturday after taking off from the capital of Jakarta, Navy official Abdul Rasyid said.

"The co-ordinates have been found and have been given to all Navy vessels in the area," he told reporters.''

 

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Boeing 737 passenger jet VANISHES over sea after 'falling 10,000ft' | Daily Mail Online

Boeing 737 jet with 62 people onboard crashes after 'falling 10,000ft' following takeoff from Indonesia and VANISHING off radar - as rescuers find debris in the ocean

• Sriwijaya Air plane took off from Jakarta and was heading to Pontianak when it lost contact with control room
• Plane is understood to have fallen 10,000 feet in less than 60 seconds just four minutes after it took off
• Feared to be 62 people on the plane, including 56 passengers as well as two pilots and four cabin crew

 

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Boeing plane goes missing in Indonesia with 62 on board

A passenger airplane has gone missing in Indonesia and search and rescue teams said they found some of the debris...
ABC News confirmed 62 people were on board: 56 passengers and six crew members.

 

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Indonesia searches for missing Boeing plane feared to have crashed into sea

Sriwijaya Air said the 62 people on board comprised 50 passengers and 12 airline employees, of whom six were on duty as flight crew. There were 40 adults, seven children and three infants among the passengers.

“We are very concerned about this situation,” the minister said.
He added that SJ 182 was attempting to climb to 29,000 feet but at 2.40pm, when it failed to follow directions given by the Air Traffic Controller and instead headed northwest, the controller radioed the pilot to ask for a report.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

"We heard a big boom around 2pm," Jakarta-based Elshinta radio reported, citing a resident of Lancang island, part of the Thousand Islands district north of Jakarta.

"We all first thought it was thunder because rain was pouring," the radio cited a resident identified as Mr Naki.

Mr Mustakin, another resident of the Thousand Islands district, told Elshinta radio he heard two explosions.

Indonesian Navy says location of missing passenger plane has been determined

 

[ShHolmz]

Would a lightning strike cause this to happen?

 

[MajorHoople]

Just the other day I watched this short video from TheFlightChannel about the crash of another Indonesian airliner that mysteriously vanished.

Boeing 737 Falls Over 54,000 Feet per Minute into the Sea | The Plane That Vanished | Adam Air 574

 

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Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.PK-CLC - Boeing 737-524 [27323] - Flightradar24 pic.twitter.com/MAVfbj73YN

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 9, 2021

 

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Fisherman Solihin, who goes by one name, told the BBC Indonesian service he had witnessed a crash and his captain decided to return to land.

“The plane fell like lightning into the sea and exploded in the water,” he said.

“It was pretty close to us, the shards of a kind of plywood almost hit my ship.”

A number of residents of an island near where the plane disappeared told the BBC they had found objects they thought were from the plane.
Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 passenger plane feared to have crashed in Indonesia

 

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Indonesia missing Boeing plane feared to have crashed after taking off from Jakarta - CNN

 

[imstilla.grandma]

We have located the position of the black boxes, both of them," said Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia's transport safety agency. "Divers will start looking for them now, and hopefully it won't be long before we get them."

A military vessel picked up the plane's signal, and divers recovered wreckage from around 23 meters below the water's surface, the transport ministry said Sunday, citing Indonesia's military chief Hadi Tjahjanto.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo expressed his "deep condolences," and called on citizens to "pray together so that victims can be found."

But the frantic search involving helicopters and a flotilla of warships appeared to offer no hope of finding any survivors.

The search and rescue agency said it had so far collected five body bags with human remains as well as debris from the crash site.

A child's pink clothing, a broken tire and wheel, life jackets and wreckage from the plane were found, according to authorities and AFP reporters on the scene.

Among the passengers was Beben Sofian, 59, and her husband, Dan Razanah, 58.

"They took a selfie and sent it to their kids before taking off," the couple's nephew Hendra told AFP.

All 62 people on board, passengers and crew, were Indonesians, including 10 children, authorities said.

Flight SJ182 was bound for Pontianak city on Indonesia's section of Borneo island, about 90 minutes flying time over the Java Sea.

On Saturday night, distraught relatives waited nervously for news at Pontianak airport.

"I have four family members on the flight -- my wife and three children," Yaman Zai said as he sobbed.

"(My wife) sent me a picture of the baby today... How could my heart not be torn into pieces?"

Data from FlightRadar24 indicated that the airliner reached an altitude of nearly 3,350 meters before dropping suddenly to 76 meters. It then lost contact with air traffic control.

The transport minister said Saturday that the jet appeared to deviate from its intended course just before it disappeared from radar.

Poor weather, pilot error or a technical problem with the plane were potential factors, said Jakarta-based aviation analyst Gerry Soejatman.

"But it's way too early to conclude anything," he added.

"After the black box is found we can start putting the puzzle together."
Indonesia Says Black Box Recorders from Crashed Plane Located

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A picture speaks a thousand words:
In Pictures: Indonesia searchers find wreckage of crashed plane

“We heard something explode, we thought it was a bomb or a tsunami since after that we saw the big splash from the water," fisherman Solihin, who goes by one name, told The Associated Press by phone.

“It was raining heavily and the weather was so bad. So it is difficult to see around clearly. But we can see the splash and a big wave after the sounds. We were very shocked and directly saw the plane debris and the fuel around our boat.”

Sumadi said Flight SJ182 was delayed for an hour before it took off at 2:36 p.m. It disappeared from radar four minutes later, after the pilot contacted air traffic control to ascend to an altitude of 29,000 feet, he said.

There were 62 people on board, including seven children and three babies.

“We are aware of media reports from Jakarta regarding Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182,” Boeing said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with the crew, passengers, and their families. We are in contact with our airline customer and stand ready to support them during this difficult time.”

Authorities established two crisis centers, one at airport and one at port. Families gathered to wait for news of loved ones.

On social media, people began circulating the flight manifesto with photos and videos of those who were listed as passengers. One video shows a woman with her children waving goodbye while walking through the airport.

Sriwijaya Air President Director Jefferson Irwin Jauwena said the plane, which is 26 years old and previously used by airlines in the United States, was airworthy. He told reporters Saturday that the plane had previously flown to Pontianak and Pangkal Pinang city on the same day.

“Maintenance report said everything went well and airworthy,” Jauwena told a news conference. He said the plane was delayed due to bad weather, not because of any damage.

Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago nation, with more than 260 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries, aging infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.

In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet operated by Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. The plane involved in Saturday’s incident did not have the automated flight-control system that played a role in the Lion Air crash and another crash of a 737 MAX 8 jet in Ethiopia five months later, leading to the grounding of the MAX 8 for 20 months.

The Lion Air crash was Indonesia’s worst airline disaster since 1997, when 234 people were killed on a Garuda airlines flight near Medan on Sumatra island. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing 162 people.

Sriwijaya Air has only has several minor incidents in the past, though a farmer was killed in 2008 when landing plane went off runway due to a hydraulic issue.

The United States banned Indonesian carriers from operating in the country in 2007, but reversed the decision in 2016, citing improvements in compliance with international aviation standards. The European Union has previously had similar bans, lifting them in June 2018.
Body parts, debris found after Indonesia plane crash


Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, is highly dependent on air travel and its safety issues illustrate the challenge relatively new carriers face as they try to keep pace with unstoppable demand for air travel in developing nations while striving for standards that mature markets took decades to reach.

From 2007 to 2018, the European Union banned Indonesian airlines following a series of crashes and reports of deteriorating oversight and maintenance. The United States lowered its Indonesia safety evaluation to Category 2, meaning its regulatory system was inadequate, between 2007 and 2016.

Indonesia's air safety record has improved in recent years, receiving a favourable evaluation by the United Nations aviation agency in 2018. But in a country with a large death toll from vehicle and ferry accidents, the safety culture is battling against a mindset that makes it inevitable for some crashes to occur, experts said.

Saturday's "crash has nothing to do with the MAX, but Boeing would do well to guide Indonesia - which has a chequered air safety record - to restore confidence in its aviation industry," said Shukor Yusof, the head of Malaysia-based aviation consultancy Endau Analytics.
Sriwijaya Air crash places Indonesia's aviation safety under fresh spotlight

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Sad, not seeing many updates (none actually) from the airline nor the officials and agencies this am.

 

[watcher9]

"We have located the position of the black boxes, both of them," said Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesia's transport safety committee, quoted by AFP, several hours ago.
"Divers will start looking for them now and hopefully it won't be long before we get them."

BBC South-East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says the sea in this part of Indonesia is relatively shallow and the bad weather which had been hampering rescue operations has now improved, making it more likely significant parts can be recovered.

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