Indonesian flight SJ-182 missing off coast of Jakarta

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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.

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.

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

[Lubicon]

First in to point out this was a 737-500 which is two generations older than the MAX aircraft. I haven't see a report of the exact age of this particular aircraft but the last 500 series rolled off the assembly line in 2000 (Wikipedia) so it is a minimum of 20 years in age.

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Originally Posted by Lubicon

First in to point out this was a 737-500 which is two generations older than the MAX aircraft. I haven't see a report of the exact age of this particular aircraft but the last 500 series rolled off the assembly line in 2000 (Wikipedia) so it is a minimum of 20 years in age.

Reports are saying this is a 26 year old plane. At the rate of altitude loss it wasn't a soft landing.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

First in to point out this was a 737-500 which is two generations older than the MAX aircraft. I haven't see a report of the exact age of this particular aircraft but the last 500 series rolled off the assembly line in 2000 (Wikipedia) so it is a minimum of 20 years in age.

Black boxes have been found, the aircraft was built in 1994 serving Continental/United until it's sale to Sriwijaya in 2012.

Just a guess but I would not be shocked if this isn't a case of metal fatigue like the Aloha Air in the 80's, the constant pressurization/decompression on these airframes takes a toll.

I personally would never take a flight on an old aircraft used for basically island hopping

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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Black boxes have been found, the aircraft was built in 1994 serving Continental/United until it's sale to Sriwijaya in 2012.

Just a guess but I would not be shocked if this isn't a case of metal fatigue like the Aloha Air in the 80's, the constant pressurization/decompression on these airframes takes a toll.

I personally would never take a flight on an old aircraft used for basically island hopping

A very wild guess at that. A 26 year old airframe is not that old, particularly if the cycle count is average. This airframe was not an 'island hopper' for the majority of its life, which is really irrelevant anyhow.

Have you referenced the weather conditions at the time of this crash? Have you noted the deplorable safety record of Indonesian carriers as a whole? Indonesian carriers were banned from flying into the US and European Union for many years because of their poor safety record and protocol. I'd be looking under other rocks if you think metal fatigue will come out as the underlying cause of this crash.

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Sriwijaya Air flight 182 crash victims:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...out&li=AAggNb9