Indonesia finds body parts, debris, detects emergency signal of crashed jet

Indonesia detected signals Jan. 10 that could be from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved. The Boeing 737-500, with 62 passengers and crew, was headed to Pontianak in West Kalimantan before it disappeared Jan. 9 from radar screens four minutes after takeoff. The crash is the first major airline incident in Indonesia since the crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 in 2018 that killed all 189 passengers and crew. Both planes plunged into the Java Sea soon after takeoff from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. “We have detected signals in two points. This could be the black box,” Bagus Puruhito, chief of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told reporters. Flight SJ 182 had 12 crew and 50 passengers on board, all Indonesians and including seven children and three babies. There were no immediate clues on what may have caused the jet’s sudden descent. (Reuters) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.