The head of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Commission, Suryanto Cahyono, said today (10th) that the commission has begun an investigation into the cause of the crash of the flight SJ182 of Sanfoqi Airlines. “We sent two investigators from the Indonesian Search and Rescue Bureau. Go to the accident sea area to conduct a location survey. We need to find more information about the location of the crash.

In addition, investigators also collected information from the Airport Air Traffic Control Bureau, the Bureau of Meteorology, Climate and Geophysics, and Sanfoqi Airlines.

Since the crashed passenger plane was produced by Boeing, the safety committee also notified the US safety department.

On January 10, local time, search and rescue personnel displayed the wreckage of the crashed passenger plane at the Jakarta International Container Terminal in Indonesia.

On January 9th, local time, the Boeing 737-500 passenger plane SJ182 of Indonesia's Sabah Airways lost contact shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta, and was subsequently found crashed in the waters near Jakarta.

　　The commander-in-chief of the Indonesian National Army, General Hadi, said at a press conference held on a naval ship participating in the search and rescue work that divers recovered from the scene the same color fragments as the SJ182 airliner.

The registration number of the aircraft, the wheels of the landing gear and the life jacket were also found. He also added that the visibility and conditions in the water are good, and the search for victims is still continuing.

　　Jakarta police spokesperson Yusri Yunus also told the media that the police had received two body bags, one of which contained the victims’ trousers and shirts, and the other contained the victims’ remains.

He also stated that the police have set up a command post at the Klamath Jati Police Hospital in Jakarta to find the families of the victims as soon as possible and identify the victims through DNA comparisons.

　　The crashed SJ182 passenger plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on the afternoon of the 9th and was originally scheduled to fly to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan Province. The flight took 90 minutes.

The registration information shows that the aircraft involved is nearly 27 years old and can carry about 130 people.

There were 62 people on board when the plane crashed, and the probability of survival is slim.

　　The flight tracking website Flightradar24 posted on its social media: "The passenger plane lost contact 4 minutes after takeoff. It fell more than 3000 meters in 1 minute, and before disappearing from the radar screen, the plane was only 80 meters high."

　　Sanfoqi Airlines was established in November 2003. The company's fleet consists of Boeing 737 aircraft and ATR 72-600 jets. In addition to operating domestic flights in Indonesia, it also has a few international flights, including Penang, Malaysia and Dili, the capital of East Timor. (Headquarters reporter Deng Xuemei and Jia Jianjing)