SCREENSHOT: Twitter/Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Crisis Center Penanganan Jatuhnya Pesawat Lion Air JT 610
A Lion Air Boeing 737 with 188 passengers on board, has crashed into the ocean shortly after take off from the Jakarta. This is what we know…
• Flight JT 610 was on a scheduled flight to Pangkal Pinang, the main city within the Bangka Belitung Islands. It departed Jakarta at 6.20am this morning.
• New ought to have taken an hour but disappeared from radar thirteen minutes into the flight.
• It misplaced contact with Jakarta gourd management just a few minutes after take-off.
• The flight was final tracked crossing the ocean.
• There aren’t any reviews of any survivors or any bodies recovered at this stage.
• The airplane was a model new Boeing 737 MAX 8.
• The pilot had earlier requested to return to Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport. This from the top of Pangkal Pinang’s search and rescue workplace as told to the native news outlet Kompas.
• Debris has been spotted from an offshore oil rig. It has not been confirmed if that is from the missing plane at this stage..