Jakarta The authorities have validated that there were no immigrants amongst 62 travelers on board the Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, serviced by Boeing 737-524 airplane, which is thought to have crashed off the coast north of Jakarta on Saturday.
” All the travelers on board were Indonesians,” National Transport Security Committee (KNKT) chief Soerjanto Tjahjono stated in an interview on Saturday.
Soerjanto said the Committee had actually informed the United States National Transport Security Board (NTSB) and the International Civil Air Travel Company (ICAO), a specific agency of the United Nations for civil aviation security, about the crash.
” According to the procedures, we have actually informed NTSB and ICAO. Because there were no foreigners on board, we did not notify safety boards in other countries, just the US,” which was the producer country of the unfortunate aircraft, Soerjanto said.
Crash Timeline
The transport ministry said that Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 lost contact with the air traffic control four minutes after removing from Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, at 02: 36 p.m. Western Indonesia Time on Saturday. The aircraft was supposed to reach Supadio International Airport at 03: 15 p.m., however it never did.
Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said that the air traffic control cautioned the airplane that it had actually guided away from the planned course. Still, the aircraft disappeared from radar seconds later on, apparently without sending any call for help.
At 02: 37 p.m., the aircraft was still in a position at an elevation of 1,200 feet and was enabled to increase to 29,000 feet by following the standard departure procedure.
” At 14: 40 WIB, an air traffic officer in Jakarta saw that Sriwijaya Air was not in the direction it ought to have been at 075 degrees, however steered northwest. When asked to report, Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 vanished from the radar within seconds,” Budi Karya stated.
The Boeing 737-524 airplane lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude under a minute, recommending a free-fall, data from Flightradar, a Swedish internet-based flight tracker, showed.
Witnesses near Laki Island, among the islands in the Thousand Islands district, told regional media that they heard 2 big bang on Saturday.
The transport ministry’s patrol boats reported they had pulled particles and the emergency stair thought coming from the Boeing 737-524 plane as well as body parts from the waters near the Laki Island.
The aircraft brought 50 guests, including 7 kids and 3 babies, and twelve flight crews, six of them off task.
