62 people feared dead as Sriwijaya Air crashes in Indonesi

Admin l Saturday, January 09, 2020

 

JAKARTA – Not less than 62 people are feared killed as a Boeing 737-500 belonging to Sriwijaya Airline crashed just  few minutes after taking off from Jakarta, capital of Indonesia.

The plane, Flight 182 according to Indonesia’s Transport minister was bond for the city of Pontianak on the Island of Borneo.

He said the plane was conveying  62 people  and  crashed just four minutes after taking off amid a heavy monsoon rain, after some delay due to  a bad weather.

The plane,  said to be 26-year-old lost more than 10,000 feet in altitude in less than 60 seconds, according to Flight radar 24.

Search and rescue team have commenced work, with some part of the plane already discovered in a nearby water.

Speaking on their search and rescue mission, Soerjanto Tjahjono, Head of the Indonesia National Transportation Safety Committee said that it had found pieces of debris in waters just northwest of Jakarta that it believed may be from the plane’s wreckage.

“Tomorrow we are going to survey the location,” Soerjanto Tjahjono, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said on Saturday evening.