Human Remains, Debris Found in Sea After Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 Went Missing Off Jakarta

Human remains and debris have been recovered from the Java Sea after a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 with at least 62 people on board lost contact with air control shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday afternoon local time. Indonesian Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Sunday that search operations were underway after authorities pinpointed “the possible location of the crash site.” Searchers were able to hone in on the likely crash site after detecting a signal from the aircraft, authorities said, and divers were deployed to help recover the victims. Locals in the area reported hearing an explosion around the time the plane vanished. “We heard something explode, we thought it was a bomb or a tsunami since after that we saw the big splash from the water,” a fisherman was quoted saying by the AP. The Flightradar24 tracking service had tweeted that Flight SJ182 “lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta.”