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Passenger Boeing with 189 passengers fell into the sea

Passenger aircraft Boeing 737 Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed a few minutes after departure from Jakarta airport. As reported by the authorities of Indonesia, he fell into the sea on the west coast of the island of Java.

According to the Indonesian authorities, there were 189 passengers and crew members on board, including three children, two pilots and five flight attendants. According to the BBC, there were at least 20 officials in the Indonesian Ministry of Finance on the plane.

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The liner, performing the JT-610 flight from Jakarta to the city of Pankalpinang on Bank Island, disappeared from the radar approximately 13 minutes after takeoff. Immediately after this, the authorities began a search operation.

 

The pilot reportedly requested permission to return to Jakarta airport.

Authorities have reported that so far there is no evidence of survivors.

Indonesia's disaster management agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho tweeted video from the crash site. The depth at the crash site is 30-40 meters. He also published photographs of the plane's wreckage and passengers' belongings found at sea.

The first message that large wreckage of the aircraft was found at sea came from the crews of civilian ships located near the crash site.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 with the tail number PK-LQP that performed this flight was produced in 2016 year.

The MAX is the latest model of one of the world's most popular medium-haul narrow-body aircraft, the Boeing 737. They began being delivered to airlines in 2017.

According to Flightradar24, Lion Air began using the liner in August of this year.

The head of the airline, Edward Siraith, said that on one of the previous flights, this aircraft had a technical problem that was fixed in normal mode.

Denis Tetyushin, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Jakarta, said that according to preliminary information, there were no Russians on board the aircraft.

Lion Air is Indonesia's largest private airline, with a fleet of more than 100 aircraft, including Boeing 737s of various modifications, as well as three Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The airline's route network includes more than 120 destinations.

The most recent Lion Air crash occurred on 13 on April 2013. Then the Boeing 737 did not reach the runway of Denpasar Airport in Bali, landed in shallow water and broke into two parts. All the 108s on board survived.

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