According to information from the Indonesian Ministry of Transport, the aircraft which disappeared this morning shortly after takeoff from Jakarta is a Boeing 737-500, a medium-haul version much earlier than that of the B 737 MAX involved in the double crash of the Indonesian Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines. The Sriwijaya Air aircraft connecting Jakarta to Pontianak on the island of Borneo (flight SJ182) with 59 passengers is registered PK-CLC. The first owner of this plane was Continental Airlines in the United States in 1994. It had joined the Sriwijaya Air fleet in 2012. This company operates around ten B 737s, all old, even very old, such as the nearly old PK-CLC. 27 years old. An airliner rarely flies more than thirty years.
The missing plane was fitted out with a business cabin with 8 seats and an economy cabin with 112 seats. The weather could be considered good for the area with a cloudy ceiling at 1,700 feet (nearly 600 meters) with rain and cumulonimbus clouds.
After five minutes of flight, radar contact was lost at 7:40 GMT 11 miles (about 20 km) north of Jakarta according to Flightaware. Residents of neighboring islands, at sea aboard two boats, heard two explosions, then reportedly found debris afloat. It was raining at the time. Residents returned to land on their islands about two hours later and reported to the police.
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