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Relatives of passengers on the crashed Lion Air ight JT610 wait at Bhayangkara R Said Sukanto hospital in Jakarta,
Indonesia, Oct 30, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
29 Oct 2018 12:56PM

(Updated: 30 Oct 2018 02:41PM)
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JAKARTA: A search and rescue mission is under way for passengers of Lion Air ight JT610 after it
crashed early on Monday (/news/asia/lion-air- ight-crashed-into-sea-after-taking-o -jakarta-
10873680) (Oct 29).
The plane lost contact 13 minutes after takeo from Jakarta at around 6.20am (7.20am
Singapore time), a spokesman for Indonesia's search and rescue agency said.
It was due to have landed in Pangkal Pinang, on the island of Bangka, at 7.20am, the Flightradar24
website showed.
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Members of a rescue team line up body bags at a port in North Jakarta. (Photo: AFP/Resmi Malau)
In an update on Tuesday morning, Lion Air said human remains have been recovered in 24 body bags.
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At least 10 bodies have been recovered and sent to the hospital for identi cation, said Muhammad
Syaugi, head of BASARNAS, Indonesia's national search and rescue agency.
Fourteen bags lled with debris from the crashed Lion Air jet have been collected. (Photo: AFP/Adek Berry)
Additionally, 14 bags of aircraft debris and personal belongings of those on board the plane have also
been retrieved.
Items such as handphones, handbags, identity cards and life vests were found in waters about 30
metres to 35 metres deep near where the plane lost contact with air tra c control.
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Both the cockpit voice recorder and the ight data recorder are still missing.
An underwater acoustic beacon has been deployed to locate the main body of the plane.
In addition to 15 vessels scouring the sea surface, the search and rescue agency added that four sonar
detectors were also deployed in areas where aircraft debris had been found a day earlier, o the shore
of Karawang, West Java.
The ight path of Lion Air JT610. (Image: Flightradar24)
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There were 189 people were on board, including six crew members and two pilots. Two infants and a
child were among the passengers.
The nance ministry said about 20 of its employees were on the plane.
Also on board was Andrea Manfredi, an Italian former professional cyclist.
Indonesian o cials named the captain of the ight as Bhavye Suneja, who according to local media
reports, has been identi ed as an Indian national who has been with the airline for seven years.
According to Lion Air, Suneja and his co-pilot, Harvino, had 11,000 hours of ying between them and
had recent medical checkups and drug testing.
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THE PLANE
The plane was a Boeing 737-800 MAX, an updated and more fuel-e cient version of the
manufacturer's workhorse single-aisle jet. The rst Boeing 737 MAX jets were introduced into service
in 2017.
Lion Air took delivery of the aircraft, which was made this year, on Aug 13 - with its rst ight two
days later.
The plane with registration number PK-LQP had a technical problem on a previous ight but it had
been resolved according to procedure, Lion Air's CEO said.
"This plane previously ew from Denpasar to Cengkareng (Jakarta). There was a report of a technical
issue which had been resolved according to procedure," Edward Sirait told reporters, declining to
specify the nature of the technical issue.
Dozens of divers are taking part in the recovery effort after the crash of the Lion Air jet. (Photo: AFP/Handout)
He said Lion has operated 11 aircraft of the same model, the Boeing 737 Max 8, and the other planes did
not have the same technical problem. Sirait said there was no plan to ground the rest of its Boeing 737
Max 8 eet.
A BBC report said a technical logbook detailed an "unreliable" airspeed reading instrument on the
Bali-Jakarta ight on Sunday and di erent altitude readings on the captain and rst o cer's
instruments.
Copies of several Lion Air technical documents have been circulating on social media, but they could
not be immediately con rmed as authentic.
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It said the engines were a product of a joint venture between US-based General Electric and France's
Safran Aircraft Engines.
A wallet belonging to a passenger of the ill-fated Lion Air ight JT 610 oats at sea in the waters north of Karawang,
West Java province. (Photo: AFP/Arif Ariadi)
Lion Air, Indonesia's biggest budget airline, is expanding the company. Earlier this year it announced
a US$6.24 billion order for 50 Boeing 737 MAX 10 planes.
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Preliminary ight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows the aircraft climbed to around 5,000ft
before losing, and then regaining height before nally falling towards the sea.
It was last recorded at 3,650ft and its speed had risen to 345 knots, according to raw data captured by
the respected tracking website, which could not immediately be con rmed.
Its last recorded position was about 15km north of the Indonesian coastline, according to a Google
Maps reference of the last coordinates reported by Flightradar24.
Kompas TV in a news report cited an air tra c controller at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport as saying that takeo was normal for the Lion Air ight. But after a few minutes, the pilot
radioed back to request a return back to the airport.
The request was approved, but contact was lost shortly after.
"The plane crashed into water about 30 to 40 metres deep," search and rescue agency spokesman
Yusuf Latif told AFP.
"We're still searching for the remains of the plane."
Videos and images of the plane's debris oating o the sea of Java have surfaced on social media.
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A Reuters report described the Boeing plane as "literally" falling out of the sky, near where shermen
Budi and Gauk began their morning about 15km o the coast.
"You could feel the explosion from the shockwave in the water," said Gauk, who goes by only one
name.
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Tony Gan
I took Lion Air..once....the landing was not what i expect from a commercial airline...although we
landed safely...i though the approach was too fast..this airline should be banned !
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Eme Aldy
agree!
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Lyall Taylor
The pilot apparently radioed air traffic control after takeoff, requesting to turn around and re-
land, which suggests to me there was a mechanical failure of some type.
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The ight path of Lion Air JT610. (Image: Flightradar24)

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