Pesawat Sriwijaya Air SJ182 Jakarta - Pontianak Hilang Kontak
Indonesian Airliner Loses Contact on Domestic Flight
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PESAWAT Sriwijaya Air SJ182 yang mengangkut 62 orang dilaporkan hilang kontak dengan pengawas lalu lintas udara setelah lepas landas dari Jakarta, Sabtu siang [9/1].
Juru Bicara Kementerian Perhubungan RI Adita Irawati mengatakan Boeing 737-500 yang dioperasikan oleh Sriwijaya Air lepas landas dari Jakarta sekitar pukul 13:56 dan kehilangan kontak dengan menara kendali pada pukul 14:40.
“Pesawat yang hilang saat ini sedang diselidiki dan dikoordinasikan dengan Badan SAR Nasional dan Komite Keselamatan Transportasi Nasional,” kata Irawati dalam sebuah pernyataan.
Pernyataan resmi yang dikeluarkan Sriwijaya Air mengatakan bahwa pesawat tersebut berada dalam penerbangan sekitar 90 menit dari Jakarta ke Pontianak, ibu kota Provinsi Kalimantan Barat.
Pesawat naas tersebut mengangkut 56 penumpang dan enam awak pesawat.
Pesawat yang terbang dari Jakarta ke Pontianak menempuh sebagian besar perjalanan di atas laut. Hingga berita ini diturunkan, puing-puing pesawat belum ditemukan seperti dikutip PA Media yang dilansir MailOnline.
A PASSENGER jet carrying 62 people has lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on a domestic flight, officials said.
Indonesian Transportation Ministry spokesperson Adita Irawati said the Boeing 737-500 operated by Sriwijaya Air took off from Jakarta at about 1.56pm and lost contact with the control tower at 2.40pm.
“The missing plane is currently under investigation and under co-ordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency and the National Transportation Safety Committee,” Irawati said in a statement.
A statement released by the airline said the plane was on an estimated 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Indonesia’s Borneo island.
There were 56 passengers and six crew members onboard.
A plane flying from Jakarta to Pontianak would spend most of the flight over the Java Sea. There was still no sign of the missing plane as night fell.
Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago nation, with more than 260 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents on land, sea and air because of overcrowding on ferries, ageing infrastructure and poorly enforced safety standards.
