{"id":6567,"date":"2021-01-10T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T07:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=148156"},"modified":"2021-01-10T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T07:25:44","slug":"body-parts-found-at-sriwijaya-air-crash-site-in-indonesia-62-feared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/10\/body-parts-found-at-sriwijaya-air-crash-site-in-indonesia-62-feared-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Body parts found at Sriwijaya Air crash site in Indonesia \u2013 62 feared dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/category\/pacific-media-watch\/\">Pacific Media Watch<\/a> newsdesk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Body parts and debris were hauled from waters near Indonesia&#8217;s capital Jakarta today from a Boeing passenger plane that crashed shortly after take off with 62 people on board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/\">reports <em>The Jakarta Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>No reasons have yet been given for the crash, with authorities focusing on a frantic search and rescue effort that appeared to offer no hope of finding any survivors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2021\/01\/10\/indonesias-deadliest-air-crashes-in-recent-years.html\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Indonesia&#8217;s deadliest air crashes in recent years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;As of this morning, we&#8217;ve received two (body) bags, one with passenger belongings and the other with body parts,&#8221; Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus told Metro TV.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery came as a flotilla of warships, helicopters and divers were deployed off the coast of the sprawling city.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-two passengers and crew were on board, including 10 children, all of them Indonesians, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 was bound for Pontianak city on Indonesia&#8217;s section of Borneo island, about 90 minutes flying time over the Java Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crashed in Java Sea<\/strong><br \/>\nIt crashed in the Java Sea near popular day-trip tourist islands just off the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Distraught relatives waited nervously for news at Pontianak airport on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have four family members on the flight &#8212; my wife and three children,&#8221; Yaman Zai said as he sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(My wife) sent me a picture of the baby today&#8230;How could my heart not be torn into pieces?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials said today they would continue their search by sea and air while also using sonar radar to pick up more signs of the downed jet.<\/p>\n<p>Divers marked at least three sites at the suspected crash site with orange ballons, according to an Agence France-Presse reporter on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From our observation, it is strongly believed the coordinates match the ones from the plane&#8217;s last signal contact,&#8221; said Hadi Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of personnel from search and rescue, the navy, the police, with 10 warships also taking part in the search effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sudden dive<br \/>\n<\/strong>Data from FlightRadar24 said the plane reached an altitude of nearly 3,350m before dropping suddenly to 100m. It then lost contact with air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Saturday that the jet appeared to deviate from its intended course just before it disappeared from radar.<\/p>\n<p>Sriwijaya Air, which has about 19 Boeing jets that fly to destinations in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, has said only that it was investigating the loss of contact.<\/p>\n<p>It did not immediately comment when contacted by AFP again on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2021\/01\/10\/indonesias-deadliest-air-crashes-in-recent-years.html\">October 2018, 189 people were killed<\/a> when a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet slammed into the Java Sea about 12 minutes after take-off from Jakarta on a routine one-hour flight.<\/p>\n<p>That crash &#8211; and a subsequent fatal flight in Ethiopia &#8211; saw Boeing hit with $2.5 billion in fines over claims it defrauded regulators overseeing the 737 MAX model, which was grounded worldwide following the two deadly crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The jet that went down Saturday is not a MAX model and was 26 years old, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No immediate insights<\/strong><br \/>\nIn its initial statements on Saturday&#8217;s crash, Boeing offered no immediate insights into the cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware of media reports from Jakarta regarding Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182. Our thoughts are with the crew, passengers, and their families,&#8221; the US-based planemaker said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in contact with our airline customer and stand ready to support them during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s aviation sector has long suffered from a reputation for poor safety, and its airlines were once banned from entering US and European airspace.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed with the loss of 162 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic investigators&#8217; final report on the AirAsia crash showed a chronically faulty component in a rudder control system, poor maintenance and the pilots&#8217; inadequate response were major factors in what was supposed to be a routine flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, in 2015, more than 140 people, including people on the ground, were killed when a military plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Medan on Sumatra island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/10\/body-parts-found-at-sriwijaya-air-crash-site-in-indonesia-62-feared-dead\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Body parts and debris were hauled from waters near Indonesia\u2019s capital Jakarta today from a Boeing passenger plane that crashed shortly after take off\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1718,789,1719,1720,851,5,207,1721,4,1722,1723],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}