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BREAKING: Contact lost with Lion Air plane, tugboat crew 'see debris of plane'

The plane took off from Jakarta at 6:20 a.m. and contact was lost at 6:33 a.m.

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Mon, October 29, 2018

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BREAKING: Contact lost with Lion Air plane, tugboat crew 'see debris of plane' Breaking News (TJP/File)

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he National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) received a report on Monday morning that air traffic control had lost contact with a Lion Air flight from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung.

A vessel traffic service officer in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Suyadi, told The Jakarta Post that at 6:45 a.m. he received a report from a tugboat, AS Jaya II, that the crew had seen a downed plane, suspected to be a Lion Air plane, in Tanjung Bungin in Karawang, West Java. 

Read also: BREAKING: 189 people on downed Lion Air flight, ministry says

"At 7:15 a.m. the tugboat reported it had approached the site and the crew saw the debris of a plane," Suyadi said. As of 9 a.m. there was no report about passengers or the plane crew, he said.

Two other ships, a tanker and a cargo ship, near the location were approaching the site, he said, and a Basarnas rescue boat was also on the way.

Information gathered by the Post said that the plane, Lion Air 610, took off from Jakarta at 6:20 a.m. and contact was lost at 6:33 a.m. (evi/afr)

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