Family Of Sriwijaya SJY 182 Passenger Attends Supadio Airport, Pontianak

Illustration - Sriwijaya Air Plane. (Rezky Purwono / Antara)

JAKARTA - The atmosphere at Supadio Pontianak Airport began to get busy with the arrival of families of Sriwijaya Air passengers on the Jakarta-Pontianak route with flight number SJY 182 who lost contact at 14:40 WIB.

According to Antara's photographer at Supadio, Saturday night, January 9, a number of victims' families had arrived at the largest airport in West Kalimantan.

There were also three families who had come because their youngest child was one of the passengers on the plane.

Previously, there had been a lost contact with the Sriwijaya aircraft on the Jakarta - Pontianak route with the SJY 182 call sign.

"The last contact was at 14:40 WIB," said Director General of Air Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation, Novie Riyanto, to Antara in Jakarta, Saturday.

Novie said that he is currently under investigation and is being coordinated with the National SAR Agency (Basarnas) and the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT).

"We will provide further information if there are other developments," he said.

The plane with the PK CLC registration number Boeing 737-500 lost contact at a position 11 nautical miles north of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang after passing an altitude of 11,000 feet and at the time of increasing the altitude to 13,000 feet.