Basarnas: Search For Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 Plane Is Constrained By Visibility

Illustration of an airplane (Photo: Calaero)

JAKARTA - The National Search and Rescue Agency, known as Basarnas, admitted that it had problems with visibility or visibility when searching for the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 aircraft, which reportedly lost contact around the Thousand Islands today.

Deputy for Operations and Preparedness Basarnas Bambang Suryo Aji explained that the obstacle was caused by natural conditions that had entered the night period.

However, Bambang and his team are committed to continuing their search to find a bright spot for the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 aircraft.

"We will continue to do our best," he said, Saturday, January 9.

Bambang suspects that the Sriwijaya Air S J182 plane crashed in an area of water with an estimated depth of about 20 meters. Meanwhile, the initial assumption was that the national airline fleet crashed between Lai Island and Lancang Island.

Previously, the Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi explained the chronology of the missing Sriwijaya Air SJ182 aircraft. In his statement to the media crew, the Minister of Transportation said the plane had a Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta route to Pontianak, taking off or taking off at 14:36 WIB

"At 14:37 WIB it was still 1,700 feet (at an altitude) and was allowed to go up to an altitude of 29,000 feet with standard instruments," said the Minister of Transportation.

Then, at 14:40 WIB the monitoring tower in Jakarta found that the Sriwijaya plane was not headed for the predetermined 0.75 degrees, but instead headed to the northwest.

Therefore, ATC Jakarta asked the plane to report the direction, "he continued. Not long after, contact lost and within seconds the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 disappeared from radar.