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Indonesian authorities began recovering the bodies of the 189 passengers on the flight. JT-610 from Lion Air, which fell into the sea a few minutes after taking off on a local flight connecting Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang on Bangka Island.
The aircraft sank to a depth of about 35 meters, said a spokesman for the country's claims protection agency, which posted a video of the debris on Twitter.
Rescue groups are working 15 kilometers off the coast and have stated that they are not expecting to find survivors.
On social networks, photos of the accident site where bags, clothes, cell phones, identity cards and driver's licenses floated in the sea were posted.
Dozens of divers from the National Search and Rescue Agency and the army are working in the area to recover the bodies of the victims.
The executive director of Lion Air, Edward Sirait, acknowledged that "the aircraft had previously flown from Denpasar to Jakarta and that a technical problem had been reported, which had been resolved in accordance with the aeronautical procedure".
The national research agency said it had determined the location of the black box, but had not yet managed to recover it, to know with certainty the cause of the tragedy.
At Jakarta airport, relatives of the victims arrived at the crisis center to ask for information about the accident. The forensic agents informed them that they could help them identify their relatives if they provided medical and dental records.
In a televised speech, Indonesian President Joko Widodo presented his condolences to the families of the victims of the plane crash. He said his government was focused on the search and rescue operation.
This accident is already considered the second largest in Indonesian aviation, a burgeoning aviation market, after that recorded in 1997, of an Airbus 300 that crashed into the city of Medan. in the north of the country, with a death toll of 214 people.
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