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Indonesian rescuers confident they found wreckage of missing plane
(Last Updated On: January 10, 2021)
Rescuers say they have found body parts and pieces of fuselage in the sea, near to where the Boeing 737-500 disappeared shortly after takeoff from Jakarta airport on Saturday.
Authorities said they were hopeful that they had found the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, after picking up a signal that could have come from the jet’s flight recorder.
The chief of the country’s search and rescue agency, Bagus Puruhito, said they were investigating signals found “in two points” which could be the plane’s black box, Sky News reported.
The jet was flying from the capital Jakarta, to the island of Borneo, when it crashed around four minutes after take-off with 62 people on board.