Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 plane, taken off from Jakarta, crashed into the sea immediately after take off. This was confirmed by sources of the Coast Guard Coast Guard to local TV. On board 62 people headed to the airport of the city of Pontianak.
The victims are the two pilots, four crew members and fifty-six passengers, including three babies and seven children.
A fisherman who was in the area off the coast of Jakarta says he saw a plane crash into the sea after a dive. The captain, Eko Surya Hadi, Commander of the Coast Guard ship Trisula, reported that wreckage from the flight and human remains were found in the water, the news is reported by the Global Times newspaper.
According to Flight Radar 24, the aircraft lost over 10,000 feet (about 3 kilometers) of altitude in less than a minute and the fall into the sea, only four minutes after departure. The airline says the plane was supposed to fly an estimated 90-minute route from Jakarta to Pontianak on the island of Borneo. It seems the aircraft had been in service for 27 years.
Indonesia is not new to these transport accidents, both by land, sea and air due to ferry overcrowding, aging infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.
The airline and the Boeing 737
According to Airfleets.net, the aircraft was delivered to US Continental Airlines in 1994. It joined the fleet of Sriwijaya Air, a small local carrier with 9 aircraft, in 2012. These are all from the 737 family. Three belong to the 500 model, eight to the 800 model and one from the 900.
The 737 Max 8, the Boeing model involved in the disasters of the Lion Air 610 flights on 9 October 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines 302 on 10 March 2019, owes the cause of the disaster to the incorrect activation, shortly after departure, of an anti-stall software on the which the crew had not been adequately informed.
Two days ago the US airline negotiated 2.5 billion dollars to close the criminal investigation that had been started in the US.
