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Jet with 189 on board crashes into sea off #Indonesia coast

───   06:54 Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Jet with 189 on board crashes into sea off #Indonesia coast | News Article

An Indonesian Lion Air passenger aircraft has crashed into the sea off the Indonesian coast.


The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control around 6:30am (11:0pm GMT), about 13 minutes after it took off, bound for Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka off the coast of Sumatra island.

The plane was carrying 189 passengers and crew when it went missing shortly after take-off, a transport ministry official said.

"The aircraft was carrying 178 adult passengers, one child and two babies, with two pilots and five flight attendants," said Sindu Rahayu, directorate general of Civil Aviation at the transport ministry.

"The plane had requested to return to base before finally disappearing from the radar," he added in a statement.

Slamet Waluyo, police chief from Karawang district in Jakarta's east - near the closest point to the suspected crash site - said authorities had received reports from several sources that the plane had crashed into the sea.

The Flightradar website tracked the plane, showing it looping south on take-off and then heading north before the flight path ended abruptly over the Java Sea, not far from the coast.


AFP

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