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Yesterday (9th) afternoon, an Indonesian airliner carrying 62 passengers and crew crashed four minutes after taking off from an airport near Jakarta.
A search was underway, and metal fragments and parts of the body were found at sea, which was believed to be the point of the crash.
Reporter Jung Hye-kyung reports.
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Searchers disembark from the ship to the port, wrapping a pile of debris suspected of being a crashed airliner in red cloth.
Yesterday at 2:40pm local time.
A Boeing 737 airliner departing from Soekarno-Hatta Airport on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, disappeared from the control tower radar network four minutes after takeoff.
The airliner, carrying 62 people, including 12 crew members, did not send any emergency signals to the control tower at the time of the accident and dived more than 10,000 feet in 60 seconds just before losing contact.
Looking at the radar trajectory, it was analyzed that the airliner lost power and plunged into the sea.
[Adita Irrawati/Indonesia Ministry of Transport spokesman: Ordered to turn in the other direction, but did not contact, and disappeared from the radar within seconds.]
Indonesian authorities are continuing the search with naval ships and air forces.
The search team found parts of the body of the missing person, oil items, and debris of a passenger plane in the vicinity by tracking signals that appear to be emanating from the cabin black box.
[Joko Widodo/President of Indonesia: We will do our best to find the victims.
Let's pray together.] The
accident airline Sriwijaya Airlines is a low-cost airline headquartered in Jakarta and has been operating for 26 years.
As a result, local media suspected that the aircraft was deteriorating as the cause of the accident, but Sriwijaya Airlines dismissed that the aircraft was in good condition before takeoff.
Indonesian rescue authorities are focusing on finding the fuselage and victims of the crashed airliner and recovering the black box.
(Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)