Sriwijaya Air plane disappears after 4 minutes of take-off.
Flight SJ182 mysteriously lost contact with radars shortly after its takeoff. The Boeing 737 plane lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude within a minute, flight tracker website FlightRadar24 reported.
Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 lost more than 10.000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.https://t.co/fNZqlIR2dz pic.twitter.com/MAVfbj73YN
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 9, 2021
A Sriwijaya Air plane lost contact after about 4 minutes of takeoff from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Saturday.
The flight tracker showed that the flight-path of flight SJ182 ending off the coast just north of Jakarta after it lost altitude.
While I'm hoping for the best, but I have to be realistic.
— Gerry Soejatman (@GerryS) January 9, 2021
This... DOES NOT look good at all. #PKCLC #SJ182 #SriwijayaAir pic.twitter.com/nlOsWUCKs1
However, not much information is yet to come out regarding the incident but here's what we know so far:
- There were 59 passengers, including five children and a baby, as per the reports from the Indonesian newspaper Republika.
- The plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport.
- It was heading to Pontianak, the provincial capital of West Kalimantan.
- The plane was a Boeing 737-500.
- The plane lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than a minute, according to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.
