No Survivors After Lion Air Plane Crash Off Indonesian Coast - Search And Rescue Agency

No survivors left after the Lion Air carrier's Boeing 737 plane crashed near the western coast of Indonesia's Java island, a spokesperson for Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) told Sputnik

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th October, 2018) No survivors left after the Lion Air carrier's Boeing 737 plane crashed near the western coast of Indonesia's Java island, a spokesperson for Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) told Sputnik.

"There are no survivors of the Lion Air Boeing 737 crash," the spokesperson said.

The Boeing 737 bound for the city of Pangkal Pinang, located on the Indonesian island of Bangka, lost contact with the traffic control at 6:33 a.m. local time (23:33 GMT) 13 minutes after departure from Jakarta's airport. The Indonesian authorities have launched search and rescue operations. The plane has presumably crashed into sea near the western coast of Java island as debris of a plane have been noticed by ships, according to media reports, citing authorities. The Jakarta Post newspaper reported that a total of 189 people were on board of the crashed plane.