Parts of the wreckage and Suspected human remains and parts of the wreckage from the doomed Boeing 737 passenger jet that crashed in Indonesia on Saturday were brought ashore in the early hours of Sunday’
The plane had plunged 10,000 ft into the ocean soon after takeoff from Jakarta.
The Sriwijaya Air plane – with 62 people on board – took off from Soekarno-Hatta international airport on Saturday at 1.56pm for a 90-minute flight over the Java Sea between Jakarta and Pofntianak in West Kalimantan – Indonesia’s section of Borneo Island.
But at 2.40pm – just four minutes after takeoff – the Boeing B737-500 plane plunged nearly 11,000 feet in less than 60 seconds to an altitude of just 250 feet, with witnesses claiming they heard two explosions.
Pictures from Jakarta showed emergency response teams taking heavy-duty bags ashore, some of which appeared to be body bags reportedly containing remains of those involved in the crash.
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While some pictures showed bags containing wreckage from the plane being laid out on the ground, others were reportedly being carried by Indonesian Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) officers, after local news outlet Kompas reported a patrol boat from the Ministry of Transportation found possibly human bodies near the crash site.
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Captain EKo Surya Hadi, commander of a life boat, also told local television that human remains were found, saying: ‘We found body parts, life jackets, avtur (aviation turbine fuel) and debris of the plane.’
A fisherman, named Solihin, told the BBC that he had been at sea when he witnessed the plane crash into the water near to his ship: ‘The plane fell like lightning into the sea and exploded in the water. It was pretty close to us, the shards of a kind of plywood almost hit my ship.’
Sixty-two passengers and crew were on board the 26-year-old plane, including 10 children, the nation’s transport minister, Budi Karya Sumadi, told reporters. 56 were passengers, including seven children and three babies, with two pilots and four cabin crew.
The missing plane is an older model than the Boeing 737 MAX jet involved in two earlier fatal crashes – including the Indonesian Lion Air crash in 2018 which killed 189.
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Families of the missing people are now fearing the worst after rescuers looking for flight SJ182 said they discovered suspected debris in the ocean north of the capital.
Locals on a nearby island said they heard two explosions before discovering metal pieces, cables and fragments of a pair of jeans floating in the sea.
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