Almost a day after a Boeing 737-500 went missing off the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a navy vessel detected a signal from the plane. “A team of divers began to descend and found pieces of the device such as debris and parts with identification numbers and the like,” Hadi Tjahjanto, the commander of the Indonesian armed forces, said in a statement. of the Ministry of Transport. The ministry did not say whether the signal came from the device’s black box.
A few hours earlier, authorities found the first debris and body parts linked to the accident. “This morning we received two bags, one with items belonging to the passengers and the other with body parts,” police spokesman Yusri Yunus told Metro TV. The police “are working on identifications,” he said. Numerous rescue and army boats, as well as helicopters and divers were deployed on Sunday morning after the site of the crash was determined overnight.
A “classic” Boeing
Debris was brought back to the main port of Jakarta where a first-aid post was established. Sriwijaya Air’s aircraft connecting Jakarta to Pontianak, on the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, lost contact with air traffic controllers on Saturday shortly after 2:40 p.m. local time (07:40 GMT), some 4 minutes after take-off. The location of the alleged Boeing crash was near tourist islands just off Jakarta.
Fifty passengers and the 12 crew members were on board. In October 2018, 189 people died in a Boeing 737 MAX crash that crashed into the Java Sea some 12 minutes after takeoff. Sriwijaya’s plane does not belong to the controversial new generation of Boeing 737 MAX but is a “classic” Boeing 737, 26 years old.
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