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Indonesian plane crash, allegedly kills 188 passengers

Damilare Aanu by Damilare Aanu
October 29, 2018
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A passenger plane carrying 188 people crashed into the sea off Jakarta, some minutes after take-off, on Monday morning

According to air tracking service Flightradar 24, the flight JT610 operated by Lion Air, lost contact with the ground 13 minutes after take-off. The jet was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, which can carry up to 200 passengers,.

“It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the country’s search and rescue agency, said on Monday by text message, when asked about the fate of the plane.

A search and rescue effort has been launched for the plane which departed Jakarta about 6.20 a.m. on Monday and was scheduled to land at Pangkal Pinang at 7.20 a.m.

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Reports received at Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta indicated the remains of the plane had been spotted.

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Indonesia’s disaster agency spokesman posted video of some debris on Twitter.  A vessel traffic officer, Suyadi, told the Jakarta Post that he received a report from a tugboat that identified a downed plane at 6.45 a.m. “At 7:15 a.m., the tugboat reported it had approached the site and the crew saw the debris of a plane,” Suyadi told the Post.

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