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A The Boeing 737 of the Indonesian company Lion Air carrying 188 people crashed Monday morning off the coast shortly after taking off from Jakarta, authorities said . .
The aircraft requested to return to the airport of the capital shortly before contact with air control was lost, around 06:30 (23:30 GMT Sunday). The plane was heading towards Pangkal Pinang, a town on the island of Bangka, opposite Sumatra.
"The plane crashed into the water," said AFP Yusuf Latif, spokesman for the research agency.
"We continue to search for the remains of the plane."
Sindu Rahayu, general manager of the Ministry of Transport's civil aircraft, announced in a separate statement that the plane was carrying 178 adult pbadengers, one child and two babies, as well as two pilots and five members cabin crew.
"The plane asked to return to its base before disappearing radars."
The Flightradar flight tracking portal shows, on a map, the trajectory of the aircraft, a Boeing 737 Max 8, which, after taking off in a southwesterly direction, turns south then north -is before stopping on the Java sea, not far from the coast.
Other incidents
Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands and islets in Southeast Asia, is highly dependent on air transport and accidents are common.
A 12-year-old boy survived a plane crash in August that claimed the lives of eight people in a mountainous region of the remote province of Papua (east).
In December 2016, 13 people were killed in the crash of a military plane near Timika, another mountainous region of Papua.
In August 2015, an ATR 42-300 of the Indonesian company Trigana Air, carrying 44 adult pbadengers, five children and five crew members, all Indonesians, crashed because of bad weather in the mountains of Bintang. .
Lion Air, a low-cost carrier, was involved in several incidents.
In August 2017, a Boeing company damaged a wing of an ATR-72 from the Wings Air company. , Indonesia, waiting to take off from Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, the country's third largest city, north of Sumatra Island. The collision did not hurt anyone.
In May 2016, two aircraft of the Lion Air group collided on the runway of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport on the outskirts of Jakarta.
In April 2013, one of the company's Boeing did not visit the landing strip of Denpasar International Airport on the Indonesian island from Bali, and crashed into the sea. The 108 people on board, including 101 pbadengers, survived but forty were injured.
Lion Air is a subsidiary of Lion Group, which owns four other companies: Wings Air and Batik Air in Indonesia, Malindo Air in Malaysia and Thai Lion Air in Thailand.
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