Indonesia's Lion Air Flight JT-610 crashes into the sea, according to officials
Source: CBS News
JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia's Lion Air said it has lost contact with a passenger jet flying from Jakarta to an island off Sumatra early Monday. A search and rescue agency that was launched for the Boeing 737-800 plane said Flight JT-610 has crashed into the sea, the Reuters news agency reports.
"It has been confirmed that it has crashed," Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the agency, said by text message, when asked about the fate of the Lion Air plane, according to Reuters. Latif said the plane had lost contact 13 minutes after takeoff.
The plane had departed Jakarta about 6:20 a.m. Monday. Lion Air spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said "we can confirm that one of our flights has lost contact, its position cannot be ascertained yet."
Lion Air is one of Indonesia's youngest and biggest airlines, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations. In 2013, one of its Boeing 737-800 jets missed the runway while landing on the resort island of Bali, crashing into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 people on board.
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And evidently the airline's safety record was well below par:
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1407217
http://avherald.com/h?article=4bf90724&opt=0
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircraft-missing-off-jakarta.html
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)and those left behind.
I cannot do more than comment, and feel for those relatives who are in so much pain right now.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Eugene
(61,966 posts)Source: BBC
29 October 2018
Lion Air flight JT 610 has crashed into the sea, with nearly 190 people on board, shortly after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
A lot of attention has focused on the fact the plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, was brand new. This is the first major incident involving that kind of plane.
Details so far have been scant and the cause will not be confirmed until a full investigation has been carried out.
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It had logged only 800 hours of flight time, according to the head of the National Transportation Safety Commission, Soerjanto Tjahjano.
The pilot is reported to have radioed air traffic control in Jakarta asking for permission to turn back, shortly after taking off.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46014260
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. Lion Air's safety record was spotty to say the least...