The wreckage of the ill-fated Indonesian passenger jet which plunged into the ocean some minutes after take-off on Saturday 9th January has been pulled. Human remains were also plunged out of the ocean. The plane had 62 people on board.
The plane Boeing 737-500 Sriwijaya Air flight 182 was heading to city of Pontianak after take-off from the Indonesian Island of Borneo after which it lost contact at 2:40 pm. Local time (2:40 am. ET), 11 nautical miles north of Jakarta’s Soekarno— Hatta International Airport. The plane dropped 10,000 feet in less than a minute before disappearing from the radar amid heavy rain in less than 5 minutes into the flight. This was according to the global flight tracking service Flightradar24.
Indonesian rescue teams find part of a Sriwijaya airplane on January 10, 2021 near Jakarta, Indonesia – CNN
The wreckage of the flight was located by the Indonesian Navy divers on Sunday through a signal from the aircraft’s fuselage.
According to Jakarta Police spokesperson, Yusri Yunus, two body bags, one containing personal effects belonging to victims, and another containing human remains were retrieved from the site.
The crash site was confirmed Sunday morning by the Indonesian National Armed Forces and Navy divers were deployed to search for the wreckage.
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This crash is the latest to be recorded by the indonesia’s airline industry.
The previous Indonesian plane carsh was in octotober 2018. Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea in Indonesia after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. The Boeing 737 Max 8 plane was scheduled to make a one –hour to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka. It is said that The improper design and certification of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, coupled with an overwhelmed flight crew battling a malfunctioning system they could not properly identify, led to the crash, according to an October 2019 report by Indonesian authorities.
Hoever, the Boeing 737-500 plane that crashed on Saturday, does not have the flawed cockpit software that contributed to two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX plane, Reuters reported.
