Indonesia Plane With Over 50 Passengers Aboard Missing After Take-off

A passenger plane carrying over 50 people have been declared missing minutes after it took off from Jakarta in Indonesia.

‘The Sriwaya Air Flight 182’ is learnt to be a 27-years-old Boeing 737-500.

As quoted by officials saying, contact was lost with the plane on Saturday, January 9, not long after it headed for the city of Pontianak located on the island of Borneo.

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Flight tracking service, Flightradar24, reported that it lost more than 10,000 feet of attitude in less than 60 seconds and 4 minutes after taking off, while the transport ministry also claimed that the last contact made with the plane was around 2:40pm local time as efforts are ongoing to search for it.

However, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency has sent a ship to some islands to the north of Jakarta’s coast to check and ascertain the location where the plane is suspected to have lost contact.