The plane carrying 189 people fell into the sea in Indonesia

The plane of Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed just 13 minutes after takeoff and lost contact with the air station.

Flight JT610 of Indonesian national airline Lion Air departs from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, to Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Province, lost contact with the air traffic control station at 6:33 (local time) this morning , according to Reuters.

The National Search and Rescue Agency then confirmed that the plane crashed into the sea. There were 189 people on the cabin, including two babies, one child, two pilots and 6 attendants.

Indonesia's Finance Ministry said at least 23 officials were on the flight of Lion Air.

The actual flight of the crashed Lion Air plane this morning.(Photo: Flightradar24).

The plane keeps increasing and decreasing, please turn your head

The plane left Jakarta at 6:20 am and is scheduled to land at 7h20 at Pangkalpinang. Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency, said the plane crashed just 13 minutes after taking off and plunged into Karawang Bay, about 3.7 km from the location of losing contact with the station. save. The water where it falls has a depth of about 30 - 35m.

According to the aircraft tracking specialist Flightradar 24, the initial data showed that the JT610 rose to about 1,524 meters before lowering and then flying back up and finally crashed into the sea.

At the loss of the signal, the plane is said to be flying at 1,113 meters and has accelerated to 345 nautical miles / h (640km / h).

Yohanes Sirait, Indonesian aviation spokesman, said the plane had asked for permission to return to the airport before losing contact."The air traffic control station has allowed but then lost contact with the plane , " he said.

Found many aircraft debris in the middle of the sea

A plane debris collected by rescue forces.(Photo: Twitter).

Sources from the port of Tanjung Priok, north of Jakarta, said the plane was found. Suyadi, the ship coordinator at the port, said that at 6:45, he received a tug-of-war report that the plane had crashed.

"At 7:15, the tug reported that it was accessible to the site and the crew saw a plane," Suyadi told Jakarta Post, but the situation of the passengers on the cabin was unknown.

A cargo ship and a search and rescue ship are also on their way to the scene. Fragments and aircraft seats believed to be JT610 were discovered near an offshore oil refining facility.

The plane crashed and met safety standards

Boeing 737 aircraft of Lion Air.(Photo: Airline Ratings).

Lion Air Group confirmed the flight carrying 189 people to the Java Sea, north of Java Island and is believed to have sunk. The captain and vice-captain flew a total of 11,000 hours.

The plane crashed was a Boeing 737 MAX 8 meeting safety standards, which had just been delivered to Lion Air in August this year. This model can carry up to 200 passengers.

This is the first accident of the Boeing 737 MAX, the fuel-efficient and upgraded version of the Boeing 737 in 1968. The first 737 MAX was put into operation in 2017.

Boeing said it had received information about the accident and "is closely monitoring" the situation.

Identify only the cause when a black box is found

Soerjanto Tjahjon, an official at the Indonesia Traffic Safety Committee, said authorities need to find black boxes, cockpit recording equipment and flight data.

"We will collect all data from the air traffic control tower. The aircraft is very modern, in the process of continuous data transmission and we will check it again, but the most important is the black box." , Mr. Soerjanto said.

Relatives of passengers on flight number JT610 of Lion Air burst into tears at Depati Amir airport in Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia after hearing the plane crashed.(Photo: Reuters).

The most recent serious aviation accident in Indonesia occurred in December 2014, when AirAsia's Airbus A320 crashed into the sea after taking off from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people on board.