Indonesian Plane With 189 People on Board Crashes Near Jakarta
Lion Air’s Boeing jet lost contact with air-traffic controllers shortly after takeoff from Jakarta
Rescuers say they’ve found debris and body parts off the coast of Jakarta at the presumed location where an Indonesian jetliner carrying 189 people went down minutes after takeoff. Photo: Getty Images
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Divers searched for a Lion Air jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea carrying 189 people shortly after takeoff Monday morning from Jakarta, in what was the first major accident involving a new variant of the popular Boeing 737.
About 30 divers faced a quick current in waters about 115 feet deep off the north coast of Java, the archipelago nation’s main island. By midafternoon, they hadn’t located the plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 8.
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