The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (Basarnas) received a report
on Monday morning that air traffic control had lost contact with a Lion
Air flight from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung.
A vessel traffic service officer in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Suyadi, told The Jakarta Post
that at 6:45 a.m. he received a report from a tugboat, AS Jaya II, that
the crew had seen a downed plane, suspected to be a Lion Air plane, in
Tanjung Bungin in Karawang, West Java.
"At 7:15 a.m. the tugboat reported it had approached the site and the
crew saw the debris of a plane," Suyadi said. As of 9 a.m. there was no
report about passengers or the plane crew, he said.
Two other ships, a tanker and a cargo ship, near the location were
approaching the site, he said, and a Basarnas rescue boat was also on
the way.
Information gathered by the Post said that the plane, Lion Air 610, took off from Jakarta at 6:20 a.m. and contact was lost at 6:33 a.m.
It’s understood the jet, flying from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung province, took off at around 6.20am Jakarta time (10.20am AEDT) on Monday but lost contact with air traffic control at 6.33am.
It’s understood the jet, flying from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung province, took off at around 6.20am Jakarta time (10.20am AEDT) on Monday but lost contact with air traffic control at 6.33am.
It
is not yet clear how many passengers were on the flight. The Boeing-737
Max 8 plane is understood to have a maximum capacity of 175 people.
Source - TheJakartaPost
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