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HONG KONG – A plane carrying 189 people from Jakarta to a smaller Indonesian city crashed in the Java Sea on Monday after the pilot asked them to turn around, officials said, prompted a desperate search for survivors and questions about why the aircraft went down .
Lion Air Flight 610 had been flying from the capital, Jakarta, to the city of Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka when it went missing. Karawang Bay Northeast of Jakarta, the capital.
Yohanes Says, a spokesman for the country's air navigation authorities, said Monday that the aircraft crew had been requested, then quickly lost contact.
The crash is another setback for Indonesia's fast-growing aviation sector, which has been troubled for years by safety problems; in June, the European Union cleared all the uninhabited safety concerns.
Boeing 737 MAX 8, which departed Jakarta at 6:21 am on Monday. The aviation website Flight Tracker said to arrive at 7:20 am in Pangkal Pinang, on an island chain off Sumatra.
Officials said that the plane was carrying 189 passengers and crew members, and that it had to be rescued at the crash site. The 178 passengers included two infants, one other child and 20 officials from the Finance Ministry, they said.
Agus Haryono, an operations official with Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters on Monday that police and military rescue had been part of what they believed to be the fuselage and were searching for a 130 foot, as well as on the water's surface.
"We have found pieces of fuselage and passengers' property, such as I.D. cards," Mr. Agus said. "There is a lot of debris."
Sutopo Purwo NugrohoA spokesman for Indonesia 's disaster relief agency, posted photographs on Twitter on Monday.
Danang Mandala Prihantoro, a Lion Air official, said in a statement that the aircraft had been in service only since August.
"Lion Air is very concerned about this incident and will be collaborating with all the parties," Mr. Danang said, adding that the airline has set up hotlines for passengers.
Muhammad Syauqi, the chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters that he had been found dead at the crash site.
The cause of the crash was not clear.
Soerjanto Thanjono, the chief of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, told reporters at a news briefing on Monday that the weather had been sunny.
Dwikorita Karnawati, head of the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics.
Lion Air said in a statement on Monday that captain of the flight, Capt. Bhavye Suneja, had more than 6,000 flying hours and that the co-pilot, who goes by the name of Harvino, had more than 5,000 flying hours.
Indonesia, an archipelago nation of more than 13,000 islands.
Passenger traffic in the country tripled from 2005 to 2017, to nearly 97 million, CAPA-Center for Aviation, a consultancy based in Australia. As of last year, Air Controlled Lion 51 percent of the domestic market.
But along with that rapid growth, Indonesia has had a troubled safety record.
Notably, in 2014, AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed on the way to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya. All seven crew and 155 passengers were killed.
Monday's crash was the latest of at least 15 episodes involving Lion Air since it began operations in 2000.
In 2004, a flight to Jakarta to Surabaya hydroplaned, overshot the runway and crashed into a cemetery in the city of Surakarta, which is colloquially known as Solo. The crash killed 25 people on board.
And in 2013, a flight to Bali, Indonesia, forcing passengers to swim ashore. That crash, which did not kill anyone, was $ 24 billion order for 234 Airbus planes.
Four Lion Air pilots were also arrested in separate incidents in 2011 and 2012 for the possession of drugs, including ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine.
Still, in 2016, the United States Federal Aviation Administration The second category indicates that it is a country that has qualified under the laws of the country.
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