Basarnas Conducts Searches At Suspected Contact Points Of Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 Aircraft

Illustration - The plane lost contact and crashed into the sea (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) conducted a search in the Thousand Islands as the point where the Sriwijaya Air plane had allegedly lost contact with the destination of the flight from Jakarta to Pontianak.

"So what Airnav informed us was that we immediately headed to that location," said the Head of Sub Division (Kasubag) Public Relations Relations between Basarnas Media, Yusuf Latif, quoted from Antara, Saturday, January 9.

He said that his party was still in the process of finding the exact position of the aircraft at this time.

"We still suspect that for the time being, we don't know exactly what happened. What is clear is that Basarnas has headed to the location of the alleged loss of Sriwijaya's lost contact," 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.

Previously reported, the Ministry of Transportation confirmed that the Sriwijaya Air plane for the Jakarta-Pontianak route with flight number SJY 182 lost contact at 14:40 WIB on Saturday.

"There has been a lost contact for the Sriwijaya aircraft on the Jakarta - Pontianak route with the SJY 182 'call sign. The last contact was at 14:40 WIB," said the Director General of Air Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation, Novie Riyanto.

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).