Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 is currently missing after taking off from Jakarta . This flight is coming out of the same airport where the Lion Air flight 610 737 Max crashed shortly after takeoff and is feared to have gone down somewhere in the ocean.
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Indonesian authorities were conducting an intensive search in the waters off Jakarta on Saturday night after they lost contact with a Boeing 737-524 carrying 62 people, all Indonesian citizens.
The Sriwijaya Air flight, SJ 182, took off at 2.36pm local time and was bound for Pontianak in West Kalimantan, a flight that usually takes about 90 minutes.
However, flight tracking data showed the plane taking a steep dive just four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta Airport.
Sriwijaya Air said the 62 people on board comprised 50 passengers and 12 airline employees, of whom six were on duty as flight crew. There were 40 adults, seven children and three infants among the passengers. All those on board were Indonesian, the country’s transport safety committee said.
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/econo...flying-jakarta
Flight radar tracking notes a huge altitude loss before contact was loss. ~10K ft in a minute.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...k-clc#26860e0e