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JAKARTA (Reuters) – An aircraft with a crash on the sea off Indonesia's island of Java on Monday, shortly after takeoff from the country's tin-mining hub, officials said.
Relative of passengers of JT610 airlifted to the sea, cry at Depati Amir airport in Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, October 29, 2018. Antara Foto / Elza Elvia via REUTERS / MANILA BULLETIN
A spokesman for Indonesia's search and rescue agency said the Lion Air Flight, JT610, lost contact 13 minutes after takeoff, adding that the ship was leaving the capital.
"Spokesman, Yusuf Latif, said by text message, which was investigated by Flightradar 24 identified as a Boeing 737 MAX 8.
Debris said to be an offshore refining facility in the Java Sea, an official of state energy firm Pertamina said.
Said Muhmmad Syaugi, head of the search and rescue agency.
"We do not know yet that there are any survivors," Syaugi told a news conference, adding that no distress signal had been received from the aircraft's emergency locator transmitter.
"We hope, we pray, but we can not confirm."
An official of Indonesia's safety transport committee said he could not confirm the cause of the crash, which would have to wait until the recovery of the plane's black boxes, as the cockpit voice recorder and data flight recorder are known.
"We will collect all data from the control tower," said Soerjanto Tjahjono. "The plane is so modern, it transmits data from the plane that we will review too. But the most important is the blackbox. "
Australia chief spokesperson Sybil said.
The effort to locate the wreckage and retrieve the black bloxes will represent the second major airAsia Airbus jet crash in the Java Sea in December 2015.
Under international rules, the U.S. National Transporation Safety Board will automatically assist with the investigation into Monday's crash, backed up by technical advisers from Boeing and U.S.-French engine maker CFM International, co-owned by General Electric and Safran.
Boeing is aware of the airline accident reports and is "closely monitoring" the situation, a spokesman told Reuters.
The flight took off from Jakarta around 6.20 a.m. and was due to have the landed in the capital of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region at 7.20 a.m., the Flightradar 24 website shown.
"Edward Sirait, chief executive of Lion Air Group, told Reuters, adding that a news conference was planned for later on Monday. "We are trying to collect all the information and data."
Preliminary flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows the aircraft over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) before losing, and then regaining, height, before finally falling towards the sea.
It was last recorded at 3,650 feet (1,113 m) and its speed had risen to 345 knots, according to which it was confirmed.
It is about 15 km (9 miles) north of the Indonesian coastline, according to a Google Maps report of the last reports reported by Flightradar24.
The Boeing 737 MAX, an updated, more fuel-efficient version of the manufacturer's workhorse single-aisle jet. The first Boeing 737 MAX jets were introduced into service in 2017.
Airindian Airindustrial Malindo Air.
Indonesia is one of the world's fastest growing markets, but its safety record is patchy.
Founded in 1999, Lion Air's only fatal accident occurred in 2004, when an MD-82 crashed upon landing at Solo City, killing 25 of the 163 people on board, the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network says.
However, six other Lion Air jets, including one that crash-landed in the waterway of the Indonesian resort island of Bali in 2013, were damaged by various aviation accidents, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
Lion Air was removed from the European Union's air safety blacklist in June 2016.
The Boeing 737 MAX 10 narrowbody jets with a list price of $ 6.24 billion. It is one of the U.S. planemaker's largest customers globally.
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