Indonesia Boeing 737 passenger plane crash site located

The Indonesian Sriwijaya Air jet SJY182 carrying 62 people, departed from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 14:36 local time (7:36 GMT) on Saturday disappeared from radars four minutes into its 90-minute journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province west of the island of Borneo. Sriwijaya Air founded in 2003, is a local budget airline which flies to Indonesian and other South-East Asian destinations. The plane went missing about 12 miles (20km) north of the capital Jakarta, not far from where another flight crashed in October 2018 when Lion Air Boeing 737 Max  plunged into the sea about 12 minutes after take-off from the city killing 189 people and crash then was blamed on a series of failures in the plane’s design. The 26-year-old Boeing 737- 500 aircraft did not send a distress signal according to the head of national search and rescue agency Air Marshal Bagus Puruhito. It is thought to have dropped more than 3, 000  (10, 000ft) in less than a minute, according to flight tracking website flight radar 24.com. Witnesses said they had seen and heard at least one explosion.

According to Solihin, a fisherman “ the plane fell like lightining into the sea and exploded in the water. It was pretty close to us, the shards of a kind of plywood almost hit my ship.” There were thought to be 50 passengers including seven children and three babies and 12 crew on board, though the plane has a capacity of 130. Everyone on board was Indonesian, officials say. More than 10 ships been deployed to the site with navy divers. Investigators are analysing items they believe to be wreckage. According to Yusri Yunus from Jakarta Police two bags had been received from the search and rescue agency. “The first bag contained passenger’s properties another bag contained body parts. We are still identifying these findings”.