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Jokowi tells families of missing passengers to wait patiently
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said he hoped that the families of passengers on board the missing Lion Air plane would remain calm while the authorities worked their hardest to search for the victims.
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National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) personnel retrieve debris from Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed in the Java Sea in Karawang, West Java, on Monday. (Courtesy of Basarnas/-)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said that he prayed for the passengers of the Lion Air plane that went missing on Monday morning en route from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in Bangka Belitung would be found immediately.
Jokowi said he had ordered National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) head M. Syaugi to carry out immediate search and rescue operations, with the help of military and police personnel.
"We are trying our best to locate and rescue the victims. I keep praying for the victims to be found immediately," Jokowi said on Monday in Nusa Dua, Bali.
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"I can feel the anxiety of the families of victims. But we hope the families can wait patiently," he added.
Lion Air flight JT610, which reportedly carried two pilots, six crew members and 181 passengers, lost contact with air traffic controllers at 6:33 a.m., about 13 minutes after it had taken off from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
The plane reportedly crashed 7 nautical miles north of the coast of Tanjung Bungin in Karawang, West Java.
Basarnas earlier said that the plane had crashed into the sea after a team located the debris about 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) south of where contact with the plane was lost.
The deputy of the Basarnas operation, Nugroho Budi Wiryanto, said that by 12:30 p.m. its personnel had yet to locate any victims from the plane crash.
