Jakarta:
Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air lost make contact with with a single of its Boeing 737 passenger planes shortly just after take-off from the capital Jakarta, the transport ministry stated Saturday.
“A Sriwijaya (Air) plane from Jakarta to Pontianak (on Borneo island) with call sign SJY182 has lost contact,” stated ministry spokesman Adita Irawati.
“It last made contact at 2:40 pm (0740 GMT).”
Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in much less than a single minute, about 4 minutes just after departure from Jakarta.https://t.co/fNZqlIR2dzpic.twitter.com/MAVfbj73YN
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It was unclear how lots of passengers and crew had been aboard the Boeing 737-500, which has a capacity of about 130, when it took off from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta international airport.
The usual flight time is about 90-minutes.
The price range airline stated only it was investigating the incident.
Indonesia’s search and rescue agency and the National Transportation Safety Commission had been also investigating, Irawati stated.
In October 2018, 189 folks had been killed when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet slammed into the Java Sea about 12 minutes just after take-off from Jakarta on a routine a single-hour flight.
That crash — and a subsequent fatal flight in Ethiopia — saw Boeing hit with $2.5 billion in fines more than claims it defrauded regulators overseeing the 737 MAX model, which was grounded worldwide following the two deadly crashes.
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