Lion Air passenger plane squeezed into the sea



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Indonesia: A Lion Air airliner crashed into the sea

An Indonesian search and rescue officer said that a private airline from Lion Air, which was flying from the capital Jakarta to Pangal Pinang, on the island of Bangkok, had crashed into the sea .

"It was confirmed that (the plane) had crashed," replied with a message on his cell phone, Yusuf Latif, spokesman for the service, interviewed by the agency's Reuters press on the fate of the aircraft Lion.

The contact with the plane was lost 13 minutes after takeoff, according to the same person in charge. It is a Boeing 737 MAX 8, according to the Flightradar 24's specialized website.

It is not known yet how many people were in the plane.

"We can not comment at this time," said Edward Shirate, general manager of Laurence's group. "We are trying to gather all the information and data," he added.

Source: RES-EAP

Last updated: Monday 29 October 2018, 04:56

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