Plane crash: Indonesian Sriwijaya 737 loses contact after taking off from Jakarta - Colin Freeman || Translated ENG to IND

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Colin Freeman

Sat, January 9, 2021, 5:50 PM GMT+7

Plane crash: Indonesian Sriwijaya 737 loses contact after taking off from Jakarta

Kecelakaan pesawat: Sriwijaya Indonesia 737 hilang kontak setelah lepas landas dari Jakarta

An aircraft carrying more than 60 people has crashed into the sea off Indonesia, officials have said.

The Boeing 737-500, which belonged to the Sriwijaya Air airline, lost contact with an airport control

tower shortly after taking off at 2.36pm local time.

Sebuah pesawat yang membawa lebih dari 60 orang mengalami kecelakaan di laut Indonesia,

kata pejabat. Pesawat Boeing 737-500 kepunyaan maskapai Sriwijaya Air mengalami hilang kontak

dengan tower kontrol bandara sejenak setelah lepas landas pukul 14.36 waktu setempat.

 

Pictures on social media claimed to show that the plane - carrying 56 passengers and six crew - had

landes in the sea. Three babies were said to be on board.

Foto-foto di media sosial mengaku menunjukkan kalau pesawat - membawa 56 penumpang dan 6 kru -

telah mendarat di laut. Ada 3 bayi di dalam penerbangan.

 

The crash was said to have taken place around Lancang Island in the Thousand Islands.

Novie Riyanto, the Director General of Air Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation,

was quoted on local media as saying that officials had lost contact with the plane and were trying

to establish what had happened.

Kecelakaan terjadi di sekitar Pulau Lancang di Kepulauan Seribu.

Novie Riyanto, Direktur Jenderal Perhubungan Udara Kementerian Perhubungan, dikutip dari media

lokal mengatakan bahwa tower pengontrol hilang kontak dengan pesawat dan sedang mencari tahu

apa yang telah terjadi. 

The plane - flight SJ182 - was travelling from Jakarta to Pontianak. 

Pesawat - penerbangan SJ182 - sedang berpergian dari Jakarta menuju Pontianak.

The aviation tracking website Flightradar24, showed the aircraft plummeting from 8,000ft to 252ft

at 33,000 feet per minute:

Website pelacak penerbangan Flightradar24, menujukkan pesawat terbang jatuh dari ketinggian

8,000 kaki menuju 252 kaki pada 33,000 kaki per menit:

A search and rescue ship has now been despatched to the area. The Thousand Islands are

a chain of islands to the north of Jakarta's coast.

Kapal pencari dan penyelamat sudah tersebar ke area. Pulau seribu adalah deretan pulau di

pinggiran Jakarta Utara. 

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago nation, with more than 260 million people,

has been plagued by transportation accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries,

aging infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.

Indonesia, negara kepulauan terbesar di dunia, dengan lebih dari 260 juta penduduk,

telah diganggu oleh kecelakaan transportasi di darat, laut dan udara karena banyaknya jumlah kapal

feri yang berlebihan, infrastruktur yang sudah tua dan standar keselamatan yang buruk.

In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet operated by Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea just minutes

after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from

Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing 162 people. 

Pada bulan oktober 2018, sebuah jet Boeing 232 MAX 8 dioperasikan oleh Lion Air jatuh ke laut Jawa

setelah beberapa menit lepas landas dari Jakarta, memakan korban 189 orang dalam penerbangan.

The aircraft involved in the latest crash is a 27-year-old Boeing 737-500.

Pesawat terbang yang mengalami kecelakaan merupakan Boeing 737-500 berumur 27 tahun.

Sriwijaya Air is one of Indonesia;s discount carriers, flying to dozens of domestic and

international destinations.

Sriwijaya Air adalah salah satu maskapai penerbangan Indonesia yang melayani penerbangan

ke berbagai tujuan domestik dan internasional.

A local government official told Kompas TV that fishermen found what appeared to be the wreckage

of an aircraft in waters north of Jakarta and a search was underway. Other channels showed pictures

of suspected wreckage. Body parts were also said to have been found.

Pemerintah setempat memberitahu Kompas TV bahwa nelayan menemukan yang tampaknya berupa

puing-puing pesawat di perarian utara Jakarta dan pencarian sedang dilakukan.

Saluran lain menampilkan foto-foto dari reruntuhan pesawat. Bagian tubuh juga dikatakan telah ditemukan.

"We found some cables, a piece of jeans, and pieces of metal on the water," a security official,

told CNNIndonesia.com

“Kami menemukan beberapa kabel, satu jeans, dan kepingan metal di air,” kata petugas keamanan

memberitahu CNNIndonesia.com

Television footage showed relatives and friends of people aboard the plane weeping, praying and

hugging each other as they waited at Jakarta's airport and Pontianak's airport.

Rekaman televisi menampilkan saudara dan teman dari orang-orang di dalam pesawat menangis,

berdoa, dan berpelukan saat mereka menunggu di bandara Jakarta dan bandara Pontianak.

Translated by xXTempo

6.16 AM

13 January 2020