(CNN) – Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Airline lost contact with a plane carrying Yakarta on Saturday, according to Jefe of the National Transportation Security Committee of Indonesia, Suryanto Cahyono.
The SJJ 182 flight from Sriwijaya Air from Yakarta to Pontianak lost contact at 14:40 pm Indonesia Occidental time (2:40 am Miami time) on Saturday, according to Antara State news agency.
Indonesia’s disembarkation plane carried 50 passengers – 43 adults and 7 children – as well as 12 members of the trip, said the Minister of Transport of Indonesia, Budi Karya Sumadi, during a press conference.
The search and rescuing agency of Indonesia, Basarnas, has launched a search operation, aggregate.
The SJY 182 aircraft lost 11 miles north of Yakarta International Airport Soekarno-Hatta to an altitude of 11,000 while ascending to 13,000, informs Antara.
The airplane pays 10,000 minutes within a minute before disappearing from radar, following the global flight follow-up service Flightradar24. The caïda ocurrió one four minutes after the despue, signal.
A map of Flightradar24 shows the moment when the flight SJY 182 of Sriwijaya Air lost contact on Saturday.
In a statement, Sriwijaya Air stated that it was “in contact with various related parties to obtain more detailed information” about the incident and that “an official statement will be issued immediately” which has more clear information.
The Ministry of Transport indicates that it is investing and coordinating with the Bazaars and the National Committee for Transport Security.
Indonesian militaries set up guard at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Yakarta despite the fact that flight 182 of Sriwijaya Air was losing contact on Saturday.
The aircraft, registered PK CLC, is a Boeing 737-500. The airline has 26 years, according to Flightradar24.
A Boeing spokesman told CNN in a statement that he was “aware of information from the Yakarta media and that he was looking into the situation”.
“We are working to retrieve more information”, dijeron.
Sriwijaya Air, a low cost airline and Indonesia’s largest airline, carries more than 950,000 passengers to and from its center in Yakarta to 53 destinations within Indonesia and three regional countries, according to the company’s website.
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Jamaluddin Masrur information from Yakarta. Mohammed Tawfeeq contributes a good reporter.