Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air lost contact with one of its flight shortly after take-off from Jakarta. It is suspected that the plane has crashed.
The flight lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than a minute, about four minutes after departure from Jakarta.
Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.https://t.co/fNZqlIR2dz pic.twitter.com/MAVfbj73YN
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 9, 2021
Aviation analyst Alex Macheras tweeted, “Breaking: Scattered debris, suspected of being part of the Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 wreckage, has been found in the Java Sea near to Jakarta — Indonesian rescue agency.”
Breaking: Scattered debris, suspected of being part of the Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 wreckage, has been found in the Java Sea near to Jakarta — Indonesian rescue agency pic.twitter.com/Bo00oMex48
— Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) January 9, 2021
It took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta with 56 passengers, and six crew members on board. The 90-minute flight was en route Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Indonesia’s Borneo island.
Indonesia’s BASARNAS (search and rescue agency) and KNKT (Indonesian transport safety org) confirmed that a search and rescue operation for the missing Boeing 737 is currently underway.