A Lion Air flight crashes at sea and 189 dead

The plane "was repaired" on the island of Bali "and then flew to Jakarta," said Sirait. "The technicians in Jakarta received a warning and made a repair before they left for Pangkal Pinai", their destination at the time of the accident.

The Boeing 737 of low-cost carrier Lion Air, which crashed off the coast of Indonesia on Monday with 189 people on board, had been repaired due to a technical problem, said the chairman of Indonesian airline Edward Sirait.



The device "was repaired" on the island of Bali "and then flew to Jakarta," said Sirait. "The technicians in Jakarta received a warning and made a repair before they left for Pangkal Pinai," their destination at the time of the accident, the source added.



Air control lost contact with the aircraft just after 0630 (2330 GMT Sunday), about ten minutes after it took off for Pangkal Pinang, a city on the island of Bangka, in front of Sumatra.

"It is true that we lost contact with the Lion Air JT 610 flight. We passed the information on to the rescue teams," said Yohanes Harry Douglas, spokesperson for AirNav Indonesia in a statement.

Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of 17,000 islands and islets, is highly dependent on air transport, and accidents are frequent.



A 12-year-old boy survived a plane crash in August that killed eight people in a mountainous area of ​​the remote province of Papua (east).

The Lion Air plane was repaired due to a technical problem before the accident in Indonesia 

In December 2016, 13 people were killed in the crash of a military aircraft near Timika, another mountainous region of Papua.



In August 2015, an ATR 42-300 of the Indonesian company Trigana Air, which was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and five crew members, all Indonesians, crashed due to bad weather in the Bintang mountains. No survivors were found.



According to Indonesian authorities, a child and two babies were also traveling on the plane. Traces of the accident were found off the West Coast.



So far, we have news of 6 corpses found, after 24 hours of searching without stopping. However, the authorities are initiating new activities to search for the bodies of the other passengers and personnel of the plane.



"We continue to do a search, except for the dives that we stopped, for the strength of the personnel, our SAR team is shooting and we are controlling it from the Basarnas Command Post," according to an official statement from Basarnas, the Rescuers from Indonesia.



The head of Communications of the National Agency for the Countermeasure of Disasters (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said that various videos that are circulating on social networks about the flight of the crashed plane are false.



Rescue work continues. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 of Lion Air had crashed off the coast of Indonesia. Now they are unloading the found bodies.

With 189 people on board, an airplane of the airline Lion Air crashed in the sea of ​​Java, Indonesia, after taking off from Jakarta towards Pangkal Pinang, according to the first information of the National Agency of Search and Rescue of said country.



According to the state entity, the aircraft was traveling 178 adult passengers, 3 minors, 2 pilots and 6 flight attendants.