Flight SJ 182 crashed in Indonesia ; Found bodies and debris on the Islands of Thousands

Fishermen said they heard a bomb-like explosion from the middle of the sea. Later, Captain Eko Surya Hadi - commander of the Trisula coast guard ship, in charge of the rescue, said that they found human body parts, some pieces of hair, upholstery, jeans and debris, suspected to be from a Sriwijaya Air Boeing, in the waters of the Thousand Islands, Jakarta, on the afternoon of January 9.

On January 9, Sriwijaya Air lost contact at 14:40, at a point 11 nautical miles from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, at an altitude of 3,350 m, while en route from Jakarta to Pontianak, with a journey 452 miles (727km) is expected to last 95 minutes. According to state news agency Antara FlightRadar24, the plane lost an altitude of 3,000 meters for one minute before disappearing from radar, about four minutes after take-off.

After urgently performing rescue work, it is known that the plane that lost contact is confirmed to have crashed into the sea.. The crash site is in the Islands of Thousands.

Jefferson Airlines CEO Irwin Jauwena said the plane was in good condition before the crash. He added that the flight was delayed 30 minutes before it could take off due to heavy rain.

According to the list, there were 62 people on board this fateful flight, including 46 adults, 7 children and 3 infants, along with 2 pilots and 4 flight attendants.

Fishermen said they heard a bomb-like explosion from the middle of the sea. Later, Captain Eko Surya Hadi - commander of the Trisula coast guard ship, in charge of the rescue, said that they found human body parts, some pieces of hair, upholstery, jeans and debris, suspected to be from a Sriwijaya Air Boeing, in the waters of the Thousand Islands, Jakarta, on the afternoon of January 9.

Sriwijaya Air said it is collecting more detailed information related to this flight. It is not clear at this time whether the debris found is from the plane that lost contact.

According to the Wartakota Tribun News, two of the passengers on the Sriwijaya Air flight were a newlywed couple. In the passenger data of the plane that crashed in Indonesia on January 9, the names of the couple Putri Wahyuni Effendi and Ihsan Adhlan Hakim. Both sit next to each other with seats 15A and 15B.

In a statement, Sriwijaya Air said it was "contacting various stakeholders for further details" on the incident and that it would "immediately issue an official statement" as more information becomes available. clear information.

At Spadio International Airport, some relatives of the ill-fated passengers on the fateful flight on January 9 came in large numbers to confirm and find out information. The sobs broke out in pain because of the sudden loss of their loved one, making everyone feel sorry. Everyone prays for a miracle, but so far, there is no sign that any passengers have any chance of surviving the plane crash.

"I pray a miracle will happen," Betty Saprianti, a resident of Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, whose cousin and nephew were passengers on the plane, told CNN.

In October 2018, 189 people were killed when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX crashed into the Java Sea about 12 minutes after taking off from Jakarta. The Boeing 737-500 that crashed today is a much older model, 27 years old.

Experts say planes like the 737-500 are being phased out in favor of newer fuel-efficient models. Civilian jets typically have an economic life of 25 years, which means that after 25 years they are more expensive to operate than new models. However, they still have enough durability to last beyond that amount of time.

Sriwijaya Air is a low-cost airline founded in 2003 based in Jakarta, mainly operating domestic flights and Southeast Asia, owning about 19 Boeing aircraft.

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