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In Indonesia, a plane has crashed, with more than 180 people on Board. The Boeing 737 of Indonesian low cost carrier Lion Air, disappeared on Monday a few minutes after the Start in the capital city of Jakarta from the radar screens. It was suspected initially that they crashed on the way to the island of Bangka into the sea. Meanwhile, the emergency services discovered the first of the debris, officials said.
The plane was on a domestic flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka. According to data of the Ministry of transport 180 passengers were on Board. The number of crew members specified, with a minimum of six.
A spokesman for the emergency services, Muhammad Syaugii, said: “We have discovered life jackets, mobile phones and aircraft parts.” Will be presumed that the wreck of the machine was now at a depth of about 35 meters in the sea.
We’re following reports that contact has been lost with Lion Air flight #JT610 shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.
ADS-B data from the flight is available at https://t.co/zNM33cM0na pic.twitter.com/NIU7iuCcFu
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) 29. October 2018
The Boeing was around 6.20 am local time (00.20 GMT) in Jakarta started. The last flight JT-610 has been located, then in Cikarang, in West Java province, said Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the national Search and rescue service. There is also the radio has broken off contact to the plane, said the Flight control center. Search teams were then on the way to the suspected crash site.
The Indonesian budget airline Lion Air was founded in 1999. The rapidly expanding society set in modern Jets, the manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, it flies to mainly to destinations within Indonesia and some international destinations. Currently, the air fleet for just over a hundred machines.
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