JAKARTA - The Indonesian Navy said it has determined the coordinates of a Sriwijaya Air plane that went missing after taking off from the capital Jakarta on Saturday (Jan 9) afternoon.
“The coordinates have been found and have been given to all Navy vessels in the area,” Navy official Abdul Rasyid said, adding that ships have been deployed to the location.
The SJ-182 flight's last contact with the aviation tower was at around 2.40pm Jakarta time (3.40pm Singapore time) as the Boeing 737-500 flew en route to Pontianak, West Kalimantan.
The Sriwijaya aircraft had lost more than 3,000m in altitude in less than a minute, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.com.
The jet was carrying 62 people - 50 passengers, including several children and babies, and 12 crew members.
"We heard a big boom around 2pm," Jakarta-based Elshinta radio reported, citing a resident of Lancang island, part of the Thousand Islands district north of Jakarta.
"We all first thought it was thunder because rain was pouring," the radio cited a resident identified as Mr Naki.
Mr Mustakin, another resident of the Thousand Islands district, told Elshinta radio he heard two explosions.
Indonesia's search and rescue agency Basarnas had said at a press briefing on Saturday night that the focus of the search is between Laki island and Lancang island.
It added that it has not received a distress signal transmitted from the plane's ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter).
"Search operations will continue 24 hours a day, focusing on the area where debris probably belonging to the plane were found. We are trying to find the exact coordinate," Basarnas deputy chief, Major General Bambang Suyo Aji, told reporters.
The plane is a Boeing 737-500 series which first flew in May 1994, according to Flightradar. It is not a 737 Max, the Boeing model involved in two major crashes in recent years. A Boeing 737 MAX operated by Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed off Jakarta in late 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew.
Sriwijaya Air was established in 2003. The private airline, which had more than half of its fleet grounded, had hopes to gradually resume full operations, after it secured maintenance services from national carrier Garuda.
On Oct 1, Sriwijaya Air and national carrier Garuda renewed their management cooperation agreement that will allow the former to send its aircraft for maintenance at Garuda's subsidiary Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) AeroAsia.
Sriwijaya Air operates flights within Indonesia and to China, Malaysia and Timor Leste.
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2021-01-09 14:47:57Z
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